ETF comparison
SPHQ vs VUG
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
34 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPHQ and VUG would leave roughly 22.0% 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
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Cost difference
VUG 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
34 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPHQ | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc. | 5.21% | 11.67% | 5.21% |
| 2 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 2.63% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 3 | Visa Inc. | 5.57% | 1.54% | 1.54% |
| 4 | Lam Research Corp. | 3.97% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 5 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 3.99% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 6 | Mastercard Inc. | 5.76% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 7 | KLA Corp. | 2.37% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 8 | Sandisk Corp. | 2.37% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
| 9 | GE Vernova Inc. | 4.13% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
| 10 | Netflix, Inc. | 3.71% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 11 | Western Digital Corp. | 3.08% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 12 | Seagate Technology Holdings PLC | 1.50% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
Only in SPHQ
67 total- Cisco Systems, Inc. 3.73%
- Procter & Gamble Co. (The) 2.85%
- QUALCOMM Inc. 2.05%
- Newmont Corp. 1.44%
- Progressive Corp. (The) 1.33%
- Lockheed Martin Corp. 1.10%
- Parker-Hannifin Corp. 1.07%
- Automatic Data Processing, Inc. 1.04%
- Johnson Controls International PLC 0.95%
- Trane Technologies PLC 0.92%
Only in VUG
112 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.62%
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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/.
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