QUALvsXLG

iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF or Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 45% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 23 stocks in both. QUAL costs 0.15% a year against 0.20% for XLG, $5 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months QUAL returned +20.2% and XLG +13.5%.

45%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
QUAL59% in stocks the other holds too
XLG64% 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.

QUALXLGYearly cost0.15%0.20%Net assets$46.5B$10.6BPositions12752Last 12 months+20.2%+13.5%3 years, a year+17.4%+19.8%5 years, a year+11.1%+13.7%Largest holdingMSFT 7.2%NVDA 12.1%Main sectorTechnology 37%Technology 49%Holdings as ofJul 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 August 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

QUAL$259XLG$308
August 2019July 2026

More comparisons

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