ETF comparison
SPHQ vs VB
Quality Factor vs US Small Cap.
Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
30 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPHQ and VB would leave roughly 4.4% 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
VB is 12 bps cheaper than SPHQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/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 VB.
Top shared holdings
30 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPHQ | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tapestry, Inc. | 0.40% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 2 | Williams-Sonoma, Inc. | 0.29% | 0.33% | 0.29% |
| 3 | DuPont de Nemours, Inc. | 0.25% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | Expand Energy Corp. | 0.22% | 0.27% | 0.22% |
| 5 | J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. | 0.22% | 0.27% | 0.22% |
| 6 | CF Industries Holdings, Inc. | 0.19% | 0.20% | 0.19% |
| 7 | C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. | 0.19% | 0.26% | 0.19% |
| 8 | Incyte Corp. | 0.17% | 0.23% | 0.17% |
| 9 | Deckers Outdoor Corp. | 0.16% | 0.17% | 0.16% |
| 10 | Best Buy Co., Inc. | 0.16% | 0.18% | 0.16% |
| 11 | F5, Inc. | 0.16% | 0.29% | 0.16% |
| 12 | Nordson Corp. | 0.15% | 0.19% | 0.15% |
Only in SPHQ
71 total- Mastercard Inc. 5.76%
- Visa Inc. 5.57%
- Apple Inc. 5.21%
- GE Vernova Inc. 4.13%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 3.99%
- Lam Research Corp. 3.97%
- General Electric Co. 3.95%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 3.73%
- Netflix, Inc. 3.71%
- Western Digital Corp. 3.08%
Only in VB
1,279 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.