Which returned more over the last year, COWZ or URTH?

In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, COWZ returned +24.4% and URTH +13.1%.

Which is cheaper, COWZ or URTH?

URTH is cheaper, by 0.25 percentage points a year. That is about $25 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do COWZ and URTH overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 95% of COWZ and 69% of URTH by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

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COWZ vs URTH: Differences, Returns & Fees

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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, COWZ returned +24.4% to URTH's +13.1%; 6% of their weight is in the same names.

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Net assets: $19.5bn on Oct 27, 2026 for Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF, and $8.9bn on Oct 28, 2026 for iShares MSCI World ETF.

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At a glance

+24.4%

COWZ total return, 1 year

+13.1%

URTH total return, 1 year

0.49%

COWZ expense ratio

0.24%

URTH expense ratio

Pair scorecard

URTH costs 0.25 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 11.3 points; COWZ is 2.2 times larger.

COWZ vs URTH: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	COWZ	URTH
Return
Measure	COWZ	URTH
Total return, 1 year	+24.4%	+13.1%
Benchmark
Measure	COWZ	URTH
What it tracks	Pacer US Cash Cows 100 Index	MSCI World Index
Cost and size
Measure	COWZ	URTH
Expense ratio	0.49%	0.24%
Net assets, as of Oct 27, 2026	$19.5bn	$8.8bn
Holdings
Measure	COWZ	URTH
Holdings in common	6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	20.4%	27.2%

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jul 31, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026. Method

What they share

By the books each fund has filed, COWZ and URTH hold 6% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Jul 31, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026.

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Positions both hold · largest shared weight first COWZ URTH

Roper Technologies Inc 0.88% 0.37%

Gilead Sciences Inc 1.93% 0.22%

QUALCOMM Inc 1.31% 0.21%

Salesforce Inc 1.90% 0.21%

Verizon Communications Inc 1.97% 0.20%

Pfizer Inc 1.84% 0.19%

AT&T Inc 1.95% 0.16%

Accenture PLC 1.78% 0.16%

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 2.18% 0.14%

Marathon Petroleum Corp 2.06% 0.14%

Altria Group Inc 1.81% 0.13%

Automatic Data Processing Inc 1.66% 0.13%

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Only in COWZ

Anglogold Ashanti Plc 1.13%

Ovintiv Inc 0.56%

Viatris Inc 0.54%

TD SYNNEX Corp 0.35%

Only in URTH

APPLE 5.60%

NVIDIA 5.50%

MICROSOFT 4.12%

AMAZON.COM INC 2.69%

ALPHABET CLASS A 2.07%

BROADCOM INC 1.70%

ALPHABET CLASS C 1.62%

META PLATFORMS CLASS A 1.49%

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Side by side

COWZ Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF URTH iShares MSCI World ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer Pacer iShares

What it is Tracks an index of US Cash Cows 100 Tracks the MSCI World

Total return, 1 year +24.4% +13.1%

Its benchmark over the same days not measured +13.4% (ACWI)

Gap to its benchmark not measured −0.3 pts vs ACWI

Expense ratio 0.49% 0.24%

Already in the S&P 500 94.7% 69.1%

Holdings 100 1254

Net assets, COWZ as of Oct 27, 2026 and URTH as of Oct 28, 2026 $19.5bn $8.9bn

COWZ and URTH on the fields both publish, as of Oct 28, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

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About each fund

COWZ

COWZ tracks an index of US Cash Cows 100. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +24.4% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.49% a year. By its holdings filed for Jul 31, 2026, 95% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 100 positions, with the top ten at 20.4%.

URTH

URTH tracks the MSCI World. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +13.1% with distributions reinvested, against +13.4% for its benchmark, the MSCI All Country World Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.24% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, 69% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 1,254 positions, with the top ten at 27.2%.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, COWZ or URTH?: In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, COWZ returned +24.4% and URTH +13.1%.
Which is cheaper, COWZ or URTH?: URTH is cheaper, by 0.25 percentage points a year. That is about $25 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do COWZ and URTH overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 95% of COWZ and 69% of URTH by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Sources and dates

COWZ filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

COWZ prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

Pacer website ↗

URTH filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

URTH prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

iShares page for URTH ↗

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How this is computed

Overlap adds up the smaller of the two weights for each security both funds hold.

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