ETF comparison
MOAT vs SPY
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap.
VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
52 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MOAT and SPY would leave roughly 14.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPY is 37 bps cheaper than MOAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $366/yr more in fees for MOAT.
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 MOAT vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
52 shared in total| # | Holding | In MOAT | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 2.50% | 7.44% | 2.50% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 2.22% | 4.44% | 2.22% |
| 3 | Amazon.com Inc | 1.31% | 3.68% | 1.31% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 1.20% | 2.72% | 1.20% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.14% | 2.09% | 1.14% |
| 6 | Applied Materials Inc | 1.35% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 7 | Palo Alto Networks Inc | 1.30% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 8 | Oracle Corp | 0.90% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 9 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.41% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 10 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 1.29% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 11 | Boeing Co/The | 1.32% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 12 | Walt Disney Co/The | 1.20% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
Only in MOAT
6 total- NXP Semiconductors NV 2.42%
- LPL Financial Holdings Inc 2.38%
- TransUnion 2.37%
- Entegris Inc 1.34%
- MarketAxess Holdings Inc 1.20%
- State Street Global Advisors 0.10%
Only in SPY
452 total- APPLE INC 6.72%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 3.29%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.63%
- TESLA INC 1.86%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.81%
- ELI LILLY + CO 1.47%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.42%
- JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 1.39%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.37%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 0.95%
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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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