ETF comparison
JQUA vs SPY
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap.
JPMorgan U.S. Quality Factor ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
172 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of JQUA and SPY would leave roughly 41.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPY is 3 bps cheaper than JQUA. On a $100,000 position that's about $26/yr more in fees for JQUA.
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 JQUA vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
172 shared in total| # | Holding | In JQUA | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alphabet, Inc. | 2.35% | 3.29% | 2.35% |
| 2 | Broadcom, Inc. | 2.11% | 2.72% | 2.11% |
| 3 | NVIDIA Corp. | 2.05% | 7.44% | 2.05% |
| 4 | Apple, Inc. | 2.01% | 6.72% | 2.01% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 1.71% | 2.09% | 1.71% |
| 6 | Microsoft Corp. | 1.66% | 4.44% | 1.66% |
| 7 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 1.61% | 1.81% | 1.61% |
| 8 | Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. | 1.77% | 1.42% | 1.42% |
| 9 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 1.64% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
| 10 | Johnson & Johnson | 1.70% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 11 | Visa, Inc. | 1.70% | 0.91% | 0.91% |
| 12 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 1.11% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
Only in JQUA
118 total- Exxon Mobil Corp. 1.89%
- Linde plc 0.85%
- Chubb Ltd. 0.51%
- Accenture plc 0.41%
- Aon plc 0.32%
- Lattice Semiconductor Corp. 0.32%
- Trane Technologies plc 0.30%
- United Therapeutics Corp. 0.30%
- Spotify Technology SA 0.27%
- Arch Capital Group Ltd. 0.27%
Only in SPY
332 total- AMAZON.COM INC 3.68%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.63%
- TESLA INC 1.86%
- ELI LILLY + CO 1.47%
- JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 1.39%
- INTEL CORP 0.93%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 0.88%
- CATERPILLAR INC 0.71%
- GENERAL ELECTRIC 0.61%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC 0.60%
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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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