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QUAL vs TILT: Differences, Returns & Fees

QUAL and TILT hold 32% of their weight in the same names. Net assets: $49.0bn on Oct 9, 2026 for iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF, and $2.2bn on Jul 31, 2026 for Northern Trust Morningstar US Market Factor Tilt ETF.

QUAL costs 0.10 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 0.2 points; QUAL is far larger, $46.5bn against $2.2bn.

QUAL vs TILT: Differences, Returns & Fees
QUALTILT
Expense ratio0.15%0.25%
Net assets, as of Jul 31, 2026$46.5bn$2.2bn
Total return, 1 year+17.1%+17.3%
What it tracksMSCI USA Sector Neutral Quality Index ?Morningstar US Market Factor Tilt Index
Holdings in common32%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund45.7%25.6%

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jul 31, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

+17.1%
QUAL total return, 1 year
+17.3%
TILT total return, 1 year
0.15%
QUAL expense ratio
0.25%
TILT expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, QUAL and TILT hold 32% 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 Jul 31, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

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32% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding QUAL TILT
NVIDIA 6.49% 4.86%
APPLE 7.03% 4.67%
MICROSOFT 8.01% 3.56%
ALPHABET CLASS A 1.97% 2.14%
META PLATFORMS CLASS A 4.62% 1.56%
ALPHABET CLASS C 1.54% 1.73%
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CLASS B 1.81% 1.21%
ELI LILLY 3.65% 0.95%
EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.31% 0.82%
JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2.04% 0.78%
VISA CLASS A 3.24% 0.63%
WALMART 0.96% 0.50%
Only in QUAL
TJX 3.41%
APPLIED MATERIAL INC 3.01%
PROLOGIS REIT 0.73%
ILLINOIS TOOL INC 0.69%
MOODYS CORP 0.29%
PUBLIC STORAGE REIT 0.28%
VIVMARK RESIDENTIAL 0.27%
MARSH 0.25%
Only in TILT
Amazon.com, Inc. 2.75%
Broadcom, Inc. 1.87%
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.22%
Micron Technology, Inc. 1.18%
Tesla, Inc. 0.90%
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 0.80%
Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.58%
AbbVie, Inc. 0.56%

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On the same fields

QUAL
iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
TILT
Northern Trust Morningstar US Market Factor Tilt ETF
Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF
Issuer iShares Northern Trust
What it is Tracks the MSCI USA Quality Factor Tracks an index
Total return, 1 year +17.1% +17.3%
Expense ratio 0.15% 0.25%
Already in the S&P 500 97.2% 72.7%
Holdings 119 1923
Net assets, QUAL as of Oct 9, 2026 and TILT as of Jul 31, 2026 $49.0bn $2.2bn

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

About QUAL

QUAL tracks the MSCI USA Quality Factor. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +17.1% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.15% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 97% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 119 positions, with the top ten at 45.7%.

About TILT

TILT tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +17.3% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.25% a year. By its holdings filed for Jul 31, 2026, 73% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 1,923 positions, with the top ten at 25.6%.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, QUAL or TILT?
In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, QUAL returned +17.1% and TILT +17.3%.
Which is cheaper, QUAL or TILT?
QUAL is cheaper, by 0.10 percentage points a year. That is about $10 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do QUAL and TILT overlap with the S&P 500?
By their latest filed holdings, 97% of QUAL and 73% of TILT by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.
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Where these figures came from
QUAL filings on SEC EDGAR ↗QUAL prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗iShares page for QUAL ↗TILT filings on SEC EDGAR ↗TILT prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

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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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