ETF comparison
AVUS vs QQQ
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
87 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and QQQ would leave roughly 43.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
AVUS is 3 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for QQQ.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with AVUS vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
87 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.48% | 7.60% | 5.48% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 5.36% | 6.67% | 5.36% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 3.84% | 4.35% | 3.84% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.67% | 4.02% | 3.67% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.41% | 3.27% | 2.41% |
| 6 | Micron Technology Inc | 2.40% | 5.64% | 2.40% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.21% | 2.62% | 2.21% |
| 8 | Alphabet Inc | 1.94% | 3.02% | 1.94% |
| 9 | Broadcom Inc | 1.18% | 2.81% | 1.18% |
| 10 | Lam Research Corp | 0.99% | 2.35% | 0.99% |
| 11 | Tesla Inc | 0.80% | 3.30% | 0.80% |
| 12 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 0.69% | 1.80% | 0.69% |
Only in AVUS
1,786 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.20%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.07%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.92%
- Eli Lilly & Co 0.84%
- Visa Inc 0.68%
- Merck & Co Inc 0.63%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 0.61%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.58%
- Chevron Corp 0.54%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.52%
Only in QQQ
15 total- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Shopify Inc. 0.60%
- Honeywell International Inc. 0.31%
- Honeywell Aerospace Inc. 0.30%
- Nebius Group N.V. 0.26%
- PDD Holdings Inc. 0.22%
- Microchip Technology Inc. 0.21%
- FERROVIAL NV 0.21%
- Axon Enterprise, Inc. 0.20%
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- AVUS vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 19.6%
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- QQQ vs CGGR · Capital Group Growth ETF 43.3%
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- QQQ vs MTUM · iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF 40.0%
- QQQ vs DSI · iShares ESG MSCI KLD 400 ETF 39.5%
- QQQ vs CGUS · Capital Group Core Equity ETF 39.4%
- QQQ vs DGRW · WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Fund 38.5%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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