MGCvsQUAL

Vanguard Mega Cap ETF or iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 45% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 55 stocks in both. MGC costs 0.05% a year against 0.15% for QUAL, $10 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months MGC returned +31.6% and QUAL +20.2%.

45%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
MGC54% in stocks the other holds too
QUAL81% 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.

MGCQUALYearly cost0.05%0.15%Net assets$10.8B$46.5BPositions182127Last 12 months+31.6%+20.2%3 years, a year+25.0%+17.4%5 years, a year+14.9%+11.1%Largest holdingNVDA 9.1%MSFT 7.2%Main sectorTechnology 43%Technology 37%Holdings as ofMay 31, 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 September 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

MGC$302QUAL$259
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (MGC: May 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.