PTLC vs QQWZ: Grades, Fees and Holdings Compared

Pacer Trendpilot US Large Cap ETF

PTLCACboe

Pacer Cash COWZ 100-Nasdaq 100 Rotator ETF

QQWZBNasdaq

Overlap

54.5%by weight

Expense ratio

QQWZ −0.11pt a year

PTLC0.60%QQWZ0.49%

Avg volume · 30D

PTLC 5.1×the volume

PTLC99.6KQQWZ19.5K

PTLC vs QQWZ Performance

Oct 31, 2025 – Oct 30, 2026

+6.4%PTLC−0.3%QQWZ

Expense ratio: PTLC 0.60%; QQWZ 0.49%, better
Fund size: PTLC $3.24B; QQWZ $42M
1Y total return: PTLC +6.4%, better; QQWZ −0.3%
Yield (12M): PTLC 1.00%, better; QQWZ 0.69%
Holdings: PTLC 505; QQWZ 102
Avg volume (30D): PTLC 99.6K sh, better; QQWZ 19.5K sh
NAV per share: PTLC $59.01; QQWZ $25.71
52W range

ETF.net Grade

Pillar letters and Scores for PTLC, QQWZ, with each pillar’s weight
Pillar	PTLC	QQWZ
Cost30% weight	A71	A84Higher
Mission25% weight	A78	Not scored
Risk15% weight	B65Higher	D32
Tradability15% weight	A100Higher	B65
Holdings10% weight	A72Higher	B58
Durability5% weight	A86Higher	D36

Rank among Trend-Following / Tactical Index funds

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Same Category. PTLC and QQWZ are both graded against the same 20 Trend-Following / Tactical Index funds, so their Grades compare head to head.

Trend-Following / Tactical Index⁠

Category · 20 funds

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PTLC ranks 2nd and QQWZ 6th of 20 funds in the Trend-Following / Tactical Index Category.

Rank 1AWAMAWisdomTree US Adaptive Moving Average FundScore 80
Rank 2APTLCPacer Trendpilot US Large Cap ETFScore 76
Rank 3AONOFGlobal X Adaptive U.S. Risk Management ETFScore 75
Rank 5BWIMAWisdomTree International Adaptive Moving Average FundScore 68
Rank 6BQQWZPacer Cash COWZ 100-Nasdaq 100 Rotator ETFScore 63
Rank 7BPTNQPacer Trendpilot 100 ETFScore 62

Our read on each fund

ETF.net Research

PTLCAPacer Trendpilot US Large Cap ETF

QQWZBPacer Cash COWZ 100-Nasdaq 100 Rotator ETF

In short

PTLC Most index funds ride out every drawdown. PTLC tracks an index with an exit ramp: a rules-based trend signal that shifts its large-cap exposure toward 3-month Treasury bills and back, with no manager judgment in the loop.

QQWZ No data

Stated mandate

PTLC The Fund seeks to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the Pacer Trendpilot US Large Cap Index. That index uses a rules-based trend-following approach that alternates exposure between equities and 3-Month US Treasury bills.

QQWZ No data

Why people hold it

PTLC The switch is mechanical. A rules-based trend signal alternates exposure between US large-cap equities and 3-month Treasury bills, so nobody is making a gut call mid-panic.paceretfs.com
Underneath the signal sits plain large-cap America: roughly 500 stocks benchmarked to the S&P 500, not a niche factor slice.paceretfs.com
Trading since 2015 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund, so the rules have run through live markets, not just backtests.
Among the index-tracking funds we cover, it lands in the upper half, and it follows its own index closely.

QQWZ No data

Worth knowing

PTLC 0.60% a year is real money next to vanilla large-cap trackers like SCHK (0.03%) or VOOV (0.07%). The trend rules are what the extra buys.
Trend signals read past prices. Moves into T-bills, or back into stocks, arrive after a market shift is already underway rather than ahead of it.
Distributions land once or twice a year, so it isn't structured as a steady income drip.

QQWZ No data

Full PTLC profile⁠

Full QQWZ profile⁠

PTLC vs QQWZ Holdings

As of Oct 23, 2026

How PTLC and QQWZ differ

Overlap by weight

54.5%

Shared holdings make up 92.9% of QQWZ and 54.5% of PTLC.

Level by level

Holdings86 in both54.5%
Sector11 Sectors76.4%
Countryby domicile97.4%
Asset classEquity100%

Sector

Sector weights in PTLC and QQWZ, widest gap first
Sector	More in PTLCMore in QQWZ	PTLC	QQWZ
Technology	QQWZ +18.3 points	40.4%	58.7%
Financials	PTLC +11.0 points	11.2%	0.2%
Health Care	PTLC +4.9 points	9.3%	4.4%
Energy	PTLC +2.9 points	3.4%	0.5%
Consumer Staples	QQWZ +2.0 points	4.3%	6.3%
Industrials	PTLC +1.8 points	7.6%	5.8%
Consumer Discretionary	QQWZ +1.7 points	8.8%	10.5%
Communication	QQWZ +1.7 points	9.9%	11.6%
Real Estate	PTLC +1.7 points	1.7%	0.0%
Utilities	PTLC +0.8 points	1.9%	1.1%
Materials	PTLC +0.6 points	1.6%	1.0%

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Country weights in PTLC and QQWZ, widest gap first
Country	More in PTLCMore in QQWZ	PTLC	QQWZ
United States	PTLC +2.2 points	99.5%	97.3%
Canada	QQWZ +1.1 points	0.0%	1.1%
Netherlands	QQWZ +0.9 points	0.0%	0.9%
Other countries (6)	QQWZ +0.3 points	0.5%	0.8%

Concentration

Weight in the 10 largest Holdings

PTLC38.4%
QQWZ47.2%

Securities held

PTLC503
QQWZ101

Asset class

PTLC: Equity
QQWZ: Equity

Holdings

Only in PTLC417
In both86
Only in QQWZ15

Only in PTLC

417 securities, 45.5% of PTLC by weight

Eli Lilly & Co1.50%
Berkshire Hathaway Inc1.48%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.1.31%
ExxonMobil Holdings Corp1.07%
Visa Inc1.04%
Johnson & Johnson0.93%
AbbVie Inc0.75%
Mastercard Inc0.75%
Chevron Corp0.65%
UnitedHealth Group Inc0.57%
Merck & Co Inc0.55%
Procter & Gamble Co/The0.55%
Coca-Cola Co/The0.54%
Caterpillar Inc0.51%
Bank of America Corp0.50%
Home Depot Inc/The0.47%
Ge Aerospace0.46%
Philip Morris International Inc0.46%
Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The0.40%
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc0.39%
RTX Corp0.39%
Wells Fargo & Co0.38%
GE Vernova Inc0.37%
International Business Machines Corp0.35%
Morgan Stanley0.34%
Oracle Corp0.33%
Citigroup Inc0.32%
Salesforce Inc0.30%
Amphenol Corp0.29%
Walt Disney Co/The0.29%
Arista Networks Inc0.29%
Verizon Communications Inc0.27%
ConocoPhillips0.27%
McDonald's Corp0.26%
Abbott Laboratories0.26%
American Express Co0.26%
Union Pacific Corp0.26%
Pfizer Inc0.25%
Blackrock Inc0.25%
Welltower Inc0.25%
NextEra Energy Inc0.24%
TJX Cos Inc/The0.24%
Deere & Co0.24%
ServiceNow Inc0.24%
Eaton Corp PLC0.23%
AT&T Inc0.23%
Boeing Co/The0.23%
Charles Schwab Corp/The0.22%
Accenture PLC0.22%
Danaher Corp0.22%

Only in QQWZ

15 securities, 7.1% of QQWZ by weight

Space Exploration Technologies Corp2.92%
Shopify Inc0.90%
ASML Holding NV0.67%
ARM Holdings PLC0.42%
MercadoLibre Inc0.40%
Strategy Inc0.24%
PDD Holdings Inc0.22%
Astera Labs Inc0.21%
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC0.20%
Thomson Reuters Corp0.18%
Nebius Group NV0.17%
Ferrovial NV0.16%
Rocket Lab Corp0.14%
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc0.13%
CoreWeave Inc0.12%

Weight gaps

All 86 Holdings in both funds, largest gap first.

Holding weights in PTLC and QQWZ, widest gap first
Holding	More in PTLCMore in QQWZ	PTLC	QQWZ
Micron Technology IncMU	QQWZ +2.87 points	1.54%	4.41%
Advanced Micro Devices IncAMD	QQWZ +2.51 points	1.35%	3.86%
Walmart IncWMT	QQWZ +1.68 points	0.77%	2.45%
Tesla IncTSLA	QQWZ +1.51 points	1.63%	3.14%
Intel CorpINTC	QQWZ +1.42 points	0.67%	2.09%
Palantir Technologies IncPLTR	QQWZ +1.29 points	0.69%	1.98%
Costco Wholesale CorpCOST	QQWZ +1.23 points	0.66%	1.89%
Cisco Systems IncCSCO	QQWZ +1.18 points	0.63%	1.81%
Meta Platforms IncMETA	QQWZ +0.91 points	2.30%	3.21%
Lam Research CorpLRCX	QQWZ +0.90 points	0.49%	1.39%
Applied Materials IncAMAT	QQWZ +0.90 points	0.49%	1.39%
Palo Alto Networks IncPANW	QQWZ +0.79 points	0.42%	1.21%
Netflix IncNFLX	QQWZ +0.75 points	0.41%	1.16%
Texas Instruments IncTXN	QQWZ +0.72 points	0.39%	1.11%
Crowdstrike Holdings IncCRWD	QQWZ +0.69 points	0.36%	1.05%
Amgen IncAMGN	QQWZ +0.66 points	0.35%	1.01%
Linde PLCLIN	QQWZ +0.64 points	0.35%	0.99%
Marvell Technology IncMRVL	QQWZ +0.60 points	0.32%	0.92%
T-Mobile US IncTMUS	QQWZ +0.59 points	0.11%	0.70%
Kla CorpKLAC	QQWZ +0.59 points	0.32%	0.91%
Sandisk CorpSNDK	QQWZ +0.57 points	0.29%	0.86%
Analog Devices IncADI	QQWZ +0.54 points	0.30%	0.84%
Amazon.com IncAMZN	QQWZ +0.54 points	3.84%	4.38%
Gilead Sciences IncGILD	QQWZ +0.52 points	0.29%	0.81%
QUALCOMM IncQCOM	QQWZ +0.52 points	0.28%	0.80%
PepsiCo IncPEP	QQWZ +0.50 points	0.28%	0.78%
Alphabet IncGOOG	QQWZ +0.49 points	2.34%	2.83%
Seagate Technology Holdings PLCSTX	QQWZ +0.44 points	0.23%	0.67%
Intuitive Surgical IncISRG	QQWZ +0.41 points	0.23%	0.64%
Western Digital CorpWDC	QQWZ +0.38 points	0.20%	0.58%
Fortinet IncFTNT	QQWZ +0.38 points	0.16%	0.54%
Vertex Pharmaceuticals IncVRTX	QQWZ +0.37 points	0.20%	0.57%
Booking Holdings IncBKNG	QQWZ +0.33 points	0.18%	0.51%
Automatic Data Processing IncADP	QQWZ +0.32 points	0.18%	0.50%
Marriott International Inc/MDMAR	QQWZ +0.32 points	0.13%	0.45%
Starbucks CorpSBUX	QQWZ +0.31 points	0.17%	0.48%
Moderna IncMRNA	QQWZ +0.29 points	0.13%	0.42%
Monster Beverage CorpMNST	QQWZ +0.29 points	0.10%	0.39%
Constellation Energy CorpCEG	QQWZ +0.28 points	0.13%	0.41%
Apple IncAAPL	QQWZ +0.27 points	7.50%	7.77%
Adobe IncADBE	QQWZ +0.28 points	0.15%	0.43%
Cintas CorpCTAS	QQWZ +0.27 points	0.11%	0.38%
NVIDIA CorpNVDA	QQWZ +0.26 points	8.02%	8.28%
Datadog IncDDOG	QQWZ +0.26 points	0.13%	0.39%
Intuit IncINTU	QQWZ +0.25 points	0.14%	0.39%
Cadence Design Systems IncCDNS	QQWZ +0.25 points	0.13%	0.38%
CSX CorpCSX	QQWZ +0.25 points	0.13%	0.38%
AppLovin CorpAPP	QQWZ +0.24 points	0.11%	0.35%
Synopsys IncSNPS	QQWZ +0.24 points	0.13%	0.37%
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals IncREGN	QQWZ +0.23 points	0.12%	0.35%
Mondelez International IncMDLZ	QQWZ +0.22 points	0.12%	0.34%
DoorDash IncDASH	QQWZ +0.22 points	0.10%	0.32%
Comcast CorpCMCSA	QQWZ +0.21 points	0.12%	0.33%
Lumentum Holdings IncLITE	QQWZ +0.21 points	0.11%	0.32%
Ross Stores IncROST	QQWZ +0.21 points	0.11%	0.32%
Microsoft CorpMSFT	QQWZ +0.21 points	5.92%	6.13%
Airbnb IncABNB	QQWZ +0.20 points	0.11%	0.31%
O'Reilly Automotive IncORLY	QQWZ +0.20 points	0.11%	0.31%
American Electric Power Co IncAEP	QQWZ +0.20 points	0.10%	0.30%
Honeywell International IncHON	QQWZ +0.19 points	0.10%	0.29%
Diamondback Energy IncFANG	QQWZ +0.18 points	0.06%	0.24%
Monolithic Power Systems IncMPWR	QQWZ +0.18 points	0.09%	0.27%
NXP Semiconductors NVNXPI	QQWZ +0.17 points	0.09%	0.26%
Fastenal CoFAST	QQWZ +0.17 points	0.09%	0.26%
PACCAR IncPCAR	QQWZ +0.16 points	0.09%	0.25%
Baker Hughes CoBKR	QQWZ +0.16 points	0.08%	0.24%
Teradyne IncTER	QQWZ +0.15 points	0.08%	0.23%
Honeywell Aerospace IncHONA	QQWZ +0.14 points	0.08%	0.22%
Autodesk IncADSK	QQWZ +0.14 points	0.08%	0.22%
Xcel Energy IncXEL	QQWZ +0.13 points	0.07%	0.20%
PayPal Holdings IncPYPL	QQWZ +0.13 points	0.08%	0.21%
Keurig Dr Pepper IncKDP	QQWZ +0.13 points	0.07%	0.20%
Exelon CorpEXC	QQWZ +0.12 points	0.07%	0.19%
IDEXX Laboratories IncIDXX	QQWZ +0.12 points	0.07%	0.19%
Microchip Technology IncMCHP	QQWZ +0.12 points	0.06%	0.18%
Paychex IncPAYX	QQWZ +0.12 points	0.05%	0.17%
Old Dominion Freight Line IncODFL	QQWZ +0.12 points	0.05%	0.17%
Take-Two Interactive Software IncTTWO	QQWZ +0.11 points	0.05%	0.16%
Roper Technologies IncROP	QQWZ +0.11 points	0.06%	0.17%
Alphabet IncGOOGL	QQWZ +0.10 points	2.94%	3.04%
Workday IncWDAY	QQWZ +0.11 points	0.06%	0.17%
Broadcom IncAVGO	QQWZ +0.10 points	2.39%	2.49%
Axon Enterprise IncAXON	QQWZ +0.09 points	0.05%	0.14%
GE HealthCare Technologies IncGEHC	QQWZ +0.08 points	0.05%	0.13%
Dexcom IncDXCM	QQWZ +0.08 points	0.05%	0.13%
Copart IncCPRT	QQWZ +0.07 points	0.04%	0.11%

All 505 PTLC holdings⁠All 102 QQWZ holdings⁠

How we measure overlap

Each holding counts at its smaller weight in the two funds, summed over the full Holdings. Sector, country and asset class use the same rule on each fund’s split. Cash, FX and derivative lines stay out of the counts. Two bond funds get no overlap figure.

PTLC vs QQWZ Cost

Overpaying PTLC vs QQWZ

$2,025

On $10,000 over 30 years. 7% growth a year before fees, expense ratio only.

PTLC 0.60%
$11,817
QQWZ 0.49%
$9,792

Amount$10,000

Years30 years

Cost over time

PTLC 0.60%
QQWZ 0.49%
Overpaying

Year by year

Year	PTLC	QQWZ	Overpaying
10	$1,076	$883	$193
20	$4,116	$3,394	$722
30	$11,817	$9,792	$2,025

Expense ratio

0.60%PTLC
0.49%QQWZ, cheaper

QQWZ0.49%PTLC0.60%

0.33%1.78%

Middle half of Trend-Following / Tactical Index funds
Median 0.67%

QQWZ 4th cheapest of 20 funds

PTLC 6th cheapest of 20 funds

PTLC vs QQWZ Dividends

Last 12 months to Oct 30, 2026

Yield (12M): PTLC 1.00%, better; QQWZ 0.69%
Payout (12M): PTLC $0.59; QQWZ $0.18
Last payment: PTLC $0.59; QQWZ $0.02
Ex-dividend: PTLC Dec 30, 2025; QQWZ Sep 3, 2026
Paid on: PTLC Jan 5, 2026; QQWZ Sep 8, 2026
Frequency: PTLC Annual; QQWZ Quarterly

Distribution history

Per share, 2017 to 2026, same scale for both

PTLCAnnual · 9 paymentsAll PTLC payments⁠

QQWZQuarterly · 6 paymentsAll QQWZ payments⁠

PTLC vs QQWZ Risk

Fall from peak · 5 years

This chart needs five years of history for both funds.

Risk facts

VolatilityStd dev, 3 years: PTLC 11.7%QQWZ 18.0%since Jun 2025
Return per unit of riskSharpe ratio, 3 years: PTLC 0.95QQWZ 0.62since Jun 2025
Worst fallMax drawdown, 5 years: PTLC −15.2%QQWZ −13.7%since May 2025
Market sensitivityBeta, 5 years: PTLC 0.87QQWZ 0.68; Market = 1

PTLC and QQWZ in the news

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ETF Filings
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Oct 2, 2026PTLC

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PTLC vs QQWZ

In short

Stated mandate

Why people hold it

Worth knowing

How PTLC and QQWZ differ

Level by level

Sector

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Concentration

Asset class

Holdings

Only in PTLC

Only in QQWZ

Weight gaps

Cost over time

Year by year

Distribution history

Fall from peak · 5 years

Risk facts

ETF Opportunities Trust files a stock ETF that may go entirely to cash in extremes