QUAL
Quality FactoriShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
iShares · Tracks MSCI USA Sector Neutral Quality Index · Inception Jul 16, 2013
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- +15.5%
- 3 year
- +21.2%
- annualized
- 5 year
- +10.9%
- annualized
Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.
Composite score
Based on a 0.15% expense ratio.
Based on $47.68B in net assets.
Top-10 holdings represent 43.2% of net assets.
Quality Factor base · ETF wrapper · 0.85% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.2).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 7.16% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.64% |
| 3 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 5.85% |
| 4 | THE TJX COMPANIES, INC. | 3.98% |
| 5 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 3.69% |
| 6 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 3.66% |
| 7 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 3.49% |
| 8 | VISA INC. | 3.17% |
| 9 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 3.10% |
| 10 | KLA CORPORATION | 2.47% |
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