Which stocks do FTCS and QUAL both hold?

34 stocks are in both. The biggest shared positions: V (2.2% of FTCS, 3.2% of QUAL), AAPL (2.2% of FTCS, 6.6% of QUAL), JNJ (2.2% of FTCS, 2.1% of QUAL), GOOGL (2.1% of FTCS, 2.1% of QUAL), MA (2.0% of FTCS, 2.3% of QUAL).

FTCSvsQUAL

First Trust Capital Strength ETF or iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 30% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 34 stocks in both. QUAL costs 0.15% a year against 0.53% for FTCS, $38 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months FTCS returned +4.5% and QUAL +20.2%.

30%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight

FTCS68% in stocks the other holds too

QUAL43% in stocks the other holds too

stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

FTCSQUALYearly cost0.53%0.15%Net assets$7.6B$46.5BPositions52127Last 12 months+4.5%+20.2%3 years, a year+9.1%+17.4%5 years, a year+5.8%+11.1%Largest holdingCSCO 2.7%MSFT 7.2%Main sectorIndustrials 23%Technology 37%Holdings as ofJun 30, 2026Jul 31, 2026

Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.

Growth of $100

Both funds from August 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

FTCS$180QUAL$260

August 2019June 2026

What they both hold

34 stocks are in both funds: 68% of FTCS and 43% of QUAL. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin FTCSin QUAL

VVisa Inc.2.2%3.2%AAPLApple Inc.2.2%6.6%JNJJohnson & Johnson2.2%2.1%GOOGLAlphabet Inc.2.1%2.1%MAMastercard2.0%2.3%TJXTJX Companies1.9%4.0%MSFTMicrosoft Corporation1.8%7.2%ROSTRoss Stores1.9%1.6%MRKMerck & Co.2.2%1.2%ADPAutomatic Data Processing2.3%1.2%

Only in FTCS

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

Only in QUAL

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

More comparisons

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (FTCS: June 2026, QUAL: July 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.