ETF comparison
QUAL vs SCHB
Quality Factor vs US Total Market.
iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF
Holdings overlap
123 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QUAL and SCHB would leave roughly 41.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SCHB is 12 bps cheaper than QUAL. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for QUAL.
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 QUAL vs SCHB.
Top shared holdings
123 shared in total| # | Holding | In QUAL | In SCHB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC. | 6.64% | 6.27% | 6.27% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 5.85% | 7.20% | 5.85% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 7.16% | 5.08% | 5.08% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.05% | 2.68% | 2.05% |
| 5 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 3.69% | 1.69% | 1.69% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.63% | 2.13% | 1.63% |
| 7 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.84% | 1.24% | 1.24% |
| 8 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 3.66% | 1.23% | 1.23% |
| 9 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION | 2.18% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 10 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 2.06% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 11 | VISA INC. | 3.17% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 12 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 2.28% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
Only in QUAL
2 total- ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. 0.17%
- AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES, INC. 0.15%
Only in SCHB
2,249 total- Amazon.com Inc 3.42%
- Broadcom Inc 2.36%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.46%
- Tesla Inc 1.39%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.28%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.03%
- AbbVie Inc 0.61%
- Intel Corp 0.60%
- Cisco Systems Inc 0.59%
- Palantir Technologies Inc 0.58%
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- SCHB vs DUHP · DFA U.S. High Relative Profitability Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 40.0%
- SCHB vs TCAF · T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Equity ETF 38.6%
- SCHB vs CGGR · Capital Group Growth ETF 38.5%
- SCHB vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 38.3%
- SCHB vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 38.0%
- SCHB vs FDVV · Fidelity High Dividend ETF 36.7%
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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