ETF comparison
SPHQ vs SPY
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap.
Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
98 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPHQ and SPY would leave roughly 18.8% 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
SPY is 6 bps cheaper than SPHQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $56/yr more in fees for SPHQ.
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 SPHQ vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
98 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPHQ | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc. | 5.21% | 7.69% | 5.21% |
| 2 | Visa Inc. | 5.57% | 1.12% | 1.12% |
| 3 | Mastercard Inc. | 5.76% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 4 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 3.99% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 5 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 3.73% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 6 | Procter & Gamble Co. (The) | 2.85% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 7 | General Electric Co. | 3.95% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
| 8 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 2.63% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 9 | Texas Instruments Inc. | 2.21% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 10 | Lam Research Corp. | 3.97% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 11 | Netflix, Inc. | 3.71% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 12 | GE Vernova Inc. | 4.13% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
Only in SPHQ
3 total- Corteva, Inc. 0.51%
- Electronic Arts Inc. 0.49%
- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 0.02%
Only in SPY
406 total- NVIDIA CORP 7.30%
- MICROSOFT CORP 6.22%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.94%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 2.56%
- BROADCOM INC 2.33%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.09%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.06%
- ELI LILLY + CO 1.71%
- TESLA INC 1.64%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.63%
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- SPHQ vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 17.5%
- SPHQ vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 17.4%
- SPHQ vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 17.0%
- SPHQ vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 14.5%
More comparisons with SPY
- SPY vs FVD · First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund 18.2%
- SPY vs SPLV · Invesco S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF 16.3%
- SPY vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 16.0%
- SPY vs MOAT · VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF 14.2%
- SPY vs SDY · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF 12.9%
- SPY vs VLUE · iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF 12.9%
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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