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JQUA vs SPY: Differences, Returns & Fees

JQUA and SPY hold 43% of their weight in the same names, and JQUA returned +22.2% over the year. Net assets: $9.3bn on Oct 9, 2026 for JPMorgan U.S. Quality Factor ETF, and $817.2bn on Oct 8, 2026 for SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust.

SPY costs 0.03 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 4.9 points; SPY is far larger, $817.2bn against $9.2bn.

JQUA vs SPY: Differences, Returns & Fees
JQUASPY
Expense ratio0.12%0.09%
Net assets, as of Oct 8, 2026$9.2bn$817.2bn
Total return, 1 year+22.2%+17.3%
What it tracksJP Morgan US Quality Factor IndexS&P 500 Index
Holdings in common43%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund19.7%39.1%

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 8, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

+22.2%
JQUA total return, 1 year
+17.3%
SPY total return, 1 year
0.12%
JQUA expense ratio
0.09%
SPY expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, JQUA and SPY hold 43% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Oct 8, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

half

43% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding JQUA SPY
MICROSOFT CORP COMMON 2.10% 5.80%
APPLE INC COMMON STOCK 2.06% 7.42%
META PLATFORMS INC 2.04% 2.38%
BROADCOM INC COMMON 1.98% 2.56%
NVIDIA CORP COMMON STOCK 1.95% 8.34%
ALPHABET INC-CL A 1.83% 3.06%
MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.98% 1.75%
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 2.19% 1.51%
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC 1.63% 1.42%
EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.80% 1.04%
VISA INC COMMON STOCK 1.77% 0.96%
JOHNSON & JOHNSON 1.53% 0.92%
Only in JQUA
SNOWFLAKE INC COMMON 0.52%
OKTA INC COMMON STOCK 0.36%
ATLASSIAN CORP COMMON 0.30%
DYNATRACE INC 0.29%
SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY SA 0.29%
MONGODB INC COMMON STOCK 0.28%
RAMBUS INC COMMON STOCK 0.28%
LATTICE SEMICONDUCTOR 0.26%
Only in SPY
AMAZON.COM INC 3.73%
ALPHABET INC CL C 2.45%
TESLA INC 1.58%
ELI LILLY + CO 1.40%
JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 1.32%
INTEL CORP 0.80%
CATERPILLAR INC 0.55%
BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.52%

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On the same fields

JQUA
JPMorgan U.S. Quality Factor ETF
SPY
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF
Issuer JPMorgan State Street
What it is Tracks an index Tracks the S&P 500
Total return, 1 year +22.2% +17.3%
Its benchmark over the same days not published +17.3% (VOO)
Gap to its benchmark not available −0.1 pts vs VOO
Expense ratio 0.12% 0.09%
Already in the S&P 500 81.0% 99.8%
Holdings 307 504
Net assets, JQUA as of Oct 9, 2026 and SPY as of Oct 8, 2026 $9.3bn $817.2bn

JQUA and SPY on the fields both publish, as of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

About JQUA

JQUA tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +22.2% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.12% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 81% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 307 positions, with the top ten at 19.7%.

About SPY

SPY tracks the S&P 500. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +17.3% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.09% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 100% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 504 positions, with the top ten at 39.1%.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, JQUA or SPY?
In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, JQUA returned +22.2% and SPY +17.3%.
Which is cheaper, JQUA or SPY?
SPY is cheaper, by 0.03 percentage points a year. That is about $3 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do JQUA and SPY overlap with the S&P 500?
By their latest filed holdings, 81% of JQUA and 100% of SPY by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.
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Where these figures came from
JQUA filings on SEC EDGAR ↗JQUA prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗JPMorgan website ↗SPY filings on SEC EDGAR ↗State Street website ↗

ETFIQ links to the documents behind every figure; a link is not an endorsement. A comparison is not a recommendation.

How this is computed

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

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