ETF comparison
SPHQ vs SPY
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap.
Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
99 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPHQ and SPY would leave roughly 18.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SPY is 6 bps cheaper than SPHQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $56/yr more in fees for SPHQ.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with SPHQ vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
99 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPHQ | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc. | 5.21% | 7.32% | 5.21% |
| 2 | Visa Inc. | 5.57% | 0.92% | 0.92% |
| 3 | Mastercard Inc. | 5.76% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 4 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 3.73% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 5 | Lam Research Corp. | 3.97% | 0.65% | 0.65% |
| 6 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 2.63% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 7 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 3.99% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 8 | Procter & Gamble Co. (The) | 2.85% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 9 | General Electric Co. | 3.95% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 10 | Netflix, Inc. | 3.71% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 11 | KLA Corp. | 2.37% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 12 | Texas Instruments Inc. | 2.21% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
Only in SPHQ
2 total- Electronic Arts Inc. 0.49%
- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 0.02%
Only in SPY
406 total- NVIDIA CORP 8.50%
- MICROSOFT CORP 5.77%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.71%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 3.03%
- BROADCOM INC 2.54%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.41%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- TESLA INC 1.57%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.55%
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- SPHQ vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 17.4%
- SPHQ vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 17.0%
- SPHQ vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 14.5%
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- SPY vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 15.5%
- SPY vs MOAT · VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF 14.4%
- SPY vs VLUE · iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF 12.8%
- SPY vs IWR · iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF 12.1%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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