Fund · Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF · measured from SEC filings
COWZ holdings
COWZ reports 101 holdings and behaves like 73.2 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 26 quarters of filings.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-07-31Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 99.38% at a quoted market price (level 1), 4 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31COWZ's largest investment is Qualcomm Inc at 2.67% of net assets. Altria Group Inc and ConocoPhillips follow; the three together are 7.04%. Ten companies are 20.44% of the fund; the other 91 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, COWZ behaves like 73.2 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 1.7 times the median. Across 26 quarterly filings COWZ has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (68.7 then, 72.1 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 21 positions were added and 22 dropped; 23.8% of the weight moved.
Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.
Every filing since 2019
26Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, COWZ went from behaving like 68.7 equally weighted positions to 72.1 — 5% more, while its top ten went from 22% to 21.15% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 101 | 72.1 | 21.15% | 2.67% |
| 2026-01-31 | 102 | 70.3 | 21.77% | 2.34% |
| 2025-10-31 | 101 | 67.1 | 22.71% | 2.82% |
| 2025-07-31 | 103 | 70.9 | 20.81% | 2.16% |
| 2025-04-30 | 101 | 68 | 21.77% | 2.36% |
| 2025-01-31 | 102 | 72.6 | 20.96% | 2.24% |
| 2024-07-31 | 101 | 72.1 | 21.03% | 2.38% |
| 2024-04-30 | 102 | 69.4 | 21.86% | 2.53% |
Earlier filings (18 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | 101 | 68.4 | 21.45% | 2.21% |
| 2023-10-31 | 101 | 66.6 | 21.78% | 2.37% |
| 2023-07-31 | 101 | 68.5 | 20.76% | 2.19% |
| 2023-04-30 | 101 | 66.5 | 21.48% | 2.21% |
| 2023-01-31 | 101 | 68 | 21.64% | 2.39% |
| 2022-10-31 | 101 | 64.8 | 22.39% | 2.49% |
| 2022-07-31 | 101 | 67 | 21.97% | 2.58% |
| 2022-04-30 | 101 | 67.5 | 21.88% | 2.29% |
| 2022-01-31 | 101 | 68.4 | 22.78% | 2.48% |
| 2021-10-31 | 102 | 70.6 | 22.03% | 2.67% |
| 2021-07-31 | 101 | 67.4 | 22.59% | 3.42% |
| 2021-04-30 | 101 | 70.6 | 20.97% | 2.26% |
| 2021-01-31 | 100 | 68.8 | 22.23% | 2.81% |
| 2020-10-31 | 102 | 72 | 20.53% | 2.23% |
| 2020-07-31 | 101 | 66.4 | 23.04% | 2.49% |
| 2020-04-30 | 100 | 67.4 | 22.45% | 2.38% |
| 2020-01-31 | 102 | 69.4 | 21.52% | 2.28% |
| 2019-10-31 | 102 | 68.7 | 22% | 2.58% |
One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.
Compared with, in the essays
1Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-04-30The 15 largest of 101 positions in COWZ's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: COWZ.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QUALCOMM Inc | 2.67% | 2.7% |
| 2 | Altria Group Inc | 2.21% | 4.9% |
| 3 | ConocoPhillips | 2.17% | 7.0% |
| 4 | CVS Health Corp | 2.16% | 9.2% |
| 5 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 2.03% | 11.2% |
| 6 | Ford Motor Co | 2.01% | 13.2% |
| 7 | Uber Technologies Inc | 2.00% | 15.2% |
| 8 | Pfizer Inc | 1.99% | 17.2% |
| 9 | Diamondback Energy Inc | 1.98% | 19.2% |
| 10 | Newmont Corp | 1.93% | 21.2% |
| 11 | Verizon Communications Inc | 1.90% | 23.0% |
| 12 | Booking Holdings Inc | 1.87% | 24.9% |
| 13 | AT&T Inc | 1.84% | 26.8% |
| 14 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 1.84% | 28.6% |
| 15 | SLB Ltd | 1.83% | 30.4% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of COWZ's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 97.44% |
| Ireland° | 1.68% |
| United Kingdom | 0.58% |
| Canada | 0.30% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of COWZ's own filings, 78 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.06 percentage points over 78 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: COWZ.json · all funds.
Who borrows COWZ's shares
2026-07-31The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $112m was out to 8 borrowers. The largest, JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, held 49.8% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | $56m | 49.8% |
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC | $24m | 21.2% |
| TD SECURITIES (USA), LLC | $19m | 17.3% |
| RAYMOND JAMES & ASSOCIATES, INC | $9m | 7.6% |
| BMO NESBITT BURNS, INC | $3m | 2.2% |
The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter COWZ has filed, with each borrower: COWZ.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30102 positions became 101: 21 added (15.0% of the fund at the later date), 22 dropped (20.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 23.8%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of COWZ compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUALCOMM Inc | 1.67% | 2.67% | Gilead Sciences Inc | 2.26% | 1.84% |
| Valero Energy Corp | 0.90% | 1.48% | Newmont Corp | 2.34% | 1.93% |
| Marathon Petroleum Corp | 1.21% | 1.78% | Comcast Corp | 2.10% | 1.71% |
| Delta Air Lines Inc | 0.92% | 1.47% | HCA Healthcare Inc | 1.93% | 1.65% |
| ON Semiconductor Corp | 0.46% | 0.84% | United Airlines Holdings Inc | 1.11% | 0.83% |
| HP Inc | 0.65% | 1.02% | Accenture PLC | 1.91% | 1.68% |
New: CVS Health Corp (2.16%), T-Mobile US Inc (1.78%), Intuit Inc (1.63%), Automatic Data Processing Inc (1.30%), Roper Technologies Inc (0.78%), Autodesk Inc (0.72%). Gone: Exxon Mobil Corp (2.34%), Chevron Corp (2.27%), Merck & Co Inc (2.13%), Walt Disney Co/The (2.07%), Amgen Inc (2.00%), General Dynamics Corp (1.53%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-3199.27% equity, 0.73% short-term investment as filed; 99.4% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.
Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds
10Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of COWZ (73.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPGP Invesco S&P 500 GARP ETF | 76 | 70.6 | 19.67% | 2026-07-31 |
| XSMO Invesco S&P SmallCap Momentum ETF | 108 | 70.8 | 24.1% | 2026-07-31 |
| FEGE First Eagle Global Equity ETF | 95 | 71.2 | 23.33% | 2026-05-31 |
| IHDG WisdomTree International Hedged Quality Dividend Growth Fund | 336 | 71.6 | 28.94% | 2026-06-30 |
| CSM ProShares Large Cap Core Plus | 305 | 71.7 * | 31.19% | 2026-05-31 |
| ROBO ROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF | 80 | 73.7 | 17.7% | 2026-07-31 |
| VUSE Vident U.S. Equity Strategy ETF | 127 | 73.8 | 25.32% | 2026-05-31 |
| VYM Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund | 609 | 74.1 | 26.16% | 2026-07-31 |
| DXJ WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund | 435 | 74.9 | 28.99% | 2026-06-30 |
| AVLC Avantis U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF | 889 | 75.7 | 30.43% | 2026-05-31 |
Measures applied in the essays
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