Difference in Analysis

Fundamental investors usually focus their attention on a relatively small group of stocks and perform in-depth analysis on each one of them. This gives fundamental investors an edge of depth in understanding individual companies over quantitative investors, who do not focus on individual stocks. Quantitative investors instead usually focus on factors across a potentially very large group of stocks. The result is that fundamental investors tend to take larger positions in their selected stocks, while quantitative investors tend to focus their analysis on a selection of factors but spread their selected factor bets across a larger group of holdings.