ETF comparison
COWZ vs SPY
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap.
Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
88 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and SPY would leave roughly 7.9% 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
SPY is 40 bps cheaper than COWZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $396/yr more in fees for COWZ.
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 COWZ vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
88 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 1.93% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 2 | Verizon Communications Inc | 1.97% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 3 | Salesforce Inc | 1.90% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 4 | QUALCOMM Inc | 1.31% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 5 | Pfizer Inc | 1.84% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 6 | AT&T Inc | 1.95% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 7 | Uber Technologies Inc | 1.90% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 8 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 2.18% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 9 | Altria Group Inc | 1.81% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 10 | Lowe's Cos Inc | 1.89% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 11 | Booking Holdings Inc | 2.22% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 12 | McKesson Corp | 1.79% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
Only in COWZ
12 total- Accenture PLC 1.78%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 1.13%
- Carnival Corp Ltd 0.90%
- Ovintiv Inc 0.56%
- Zoom Communications Inc 0.55%
- SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc 0.48%
- TechnipFMC PLC 0.43%
- Atlassian Corp 0.39%
- TD SYNNEX Corp 0.36%
- Zscaler Inc 0.31%
Only in SPY
416 total- APPLE INC 7.69%
- NVIDIA CORP 7.30%
- MICROSOFT CORP 6.22%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.94%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 2.56%
- BROADCOM INC 2.33%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.09%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.06%
- ELI LILLY + CO 1.71%
- TESLA INC 1.64%
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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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