Which stocks do QUAL and VUG both hold?

46 stocks are in both. The biggest shared positions: MSFT (7.2% of QUAL, 7.6% of VUG), AAPL (6.6% of QUAL, 11.7% of VUG), NVDA (5.9% of QUAL, 12.6% of VUG), META (3.7% of QUAL, 3.4% of VUG), LLY (3.7% of QUAL, 2.8% of VUG).

QUALvsVUG

iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF or Vanguard Growth ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 44% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 46 stocks in both. VUG costs 0.03% a year against 0.15% for QUAL, $12 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months QUAL returned +20.2% and VUG +18.6%.

44%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight

QUAL66% in stocks the other holds too

VUG63% in stocks the other holds too

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The two funds

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

QUALVUGYearly cost0.15%0.03%Net assets$46.5B$379.3BPositions127152Last 12 months+20.2%+18.6%3 years, a year+17.4%+22.9%5 years, a year+11.1%+13.2%Largest holdingMSFT 7.2%NVDA 12.6%Main sectorTechnology 37%Technology 56%Holdings as ofJul 31, 2026Jun 30, 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.

QUAL$260VUG$324

August 2019June 2026

What they both hold

46 stocks are in both funds: 66% of QUAL and 63% of VUG. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin QUALin VUG

MSFTMicrosoft Corporation7.2%7.6%AAPLApple Inc.6.6%11.7%NVDANVIDIA Corporation5.9%12.6%METAMeta Platforms3.7%3.4%LLYEli Lilly3.7%2.8%GOOGLAlphabet Inc.2.1%5.8%GOOGAlphabet Inc. (Class C)1.6%4.5%AMATApplied Materials3.1%1.6%VVisa Inc.3.2%1.5%LRCXLam Research3.5%1.5%

Only in QUAL

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

Only in VUG

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (QUAL: July 2026, VUG: June 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.