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
47 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MOAT and SPY would leave roughly 14.2% 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 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
47 shared in total| # | Holding | In MOAT | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 2.45% | 7.30% | 2.45% |
| 2 | Broadcom Inc | 2.43% | 2.33% | 2.33% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 2.20% | 6.22% | 2.20% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 1.33% | 3.94% | 1.33% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.17% | 2.09% | 1.17% |
| 6 | Applied Materials Inc | 2.34% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 7 | Palo Alto Networks Inc | 2.51% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 8 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 1.18% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 9 | Walt Disney Co/The | 1.19% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 10 | Amphenol Corp | 1.50% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 11 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.17% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 12 | Charles Schwab Corp/The | 2.45% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
Only in MOAT
8 total- Kenvue Inc 2.59%
- LPL Financial Holdings Inc 2.30%
- Entegris Inc 1.73%
- NXP Semiconductors NV 1.60%
- MercadoLibre Inc 1.28%
- Guidewire Software Inc 1.18%
- TransUnion 1.16%
- MarketAxess Holdings Inc 0.74%
Only in SPY
457 total- APPLE INC 7.69%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 2.56%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.06%
- ELI LILLY + CO 1.71%
- TESLA INC 1.64%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.63%
- JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 1.41%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.35%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.20%
- VISA INC CLASS A SHARES 1.12%
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- MOAT vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 14.1%
- MOAT vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 14.1%
- MOAT vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 13.4%
- MOAT vs JQUA · JPMorgan U.S. Quality Factor ETF 13.0%
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- SPY vs IWR · iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF 12.7%
- SPY vs IWS · iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF 11.1%
- SPY vs NOBL · ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF 10.8%
- SPY vs HDV · iShares Core High Dividend ETF 10.3%
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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