ETF comparison
COWZ vs VO
Quality Factor vs US Mid Cap.
Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF · Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
55 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and VO would leave roughly 18.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VO is 46 bps cheaper than COWZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $460/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 VO.
Top shared holdings
55 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SLB Ltd | 1.83% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 2 | Valero Energy Corp | 1.47% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 3 | Marathon Petroleum Corp | 1.78% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 4 | PACCAR Inc | 0.99% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 5 | Newmont Corp | 1.93% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 6 | Cencora Inc | 1.03% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 7 | Corteva Inc | 0.98% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 8 | Target Corp | 1.07% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 9 | Cardinal Health Inc | 1.62% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 10 | Occidental Petroleum Corp | 1.53% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
| 11 | Ford Motor Co | 2.01% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 12 | Delta Air Lines Inc | 1.47% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
Only in COWZ
45 total- QUALCOMM Inc 2.67%
- Altria Group Inc 2.20%
- ConocoPhillips 2.17%
- CVS Health Corp 2.16%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 2.03%
- Uber Technologies Inc 2.00%
- Pfizer Inc 1.99%
- Verizon Communications Inc 1.90%
- Booking Holdings Inc 1.87%
- AT&T Inc 1.84%
Only in VO
234 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.03%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.01%
- Western Digital Corp 1.00%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.94%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.93%
- Quanta Services Inc 0.89%
- Cummins Inc 0.81%
- Phillips 66 0.80%
- Motorola Solutions Inc 0.78%
- CRH PLC 0.77%
Open COWZ or VO at a brokerage
Both funds trade commission-free at major US brokerages.
Affiliate links — opening an account through these earns PlainIndex a one-time referral. Scoring is computed before any affiliate consideration; see our methodology and funding disclosure.
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.