ETF comparison
BBUS vs QQQ
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
93 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BBUS and QQQ would leave roughly 52.0% 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
BBUS is 16 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for QQQ.
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Top shared holdings
93 shared in total| # | Holding | In BBUS | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.30% | 7.60% | 7.30% |
| 2 | Apple, Inc. | 7.03% | 6.67% | 6.67% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 5.36% | 4.35% | 4.35% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.14% | 4.02% | 4.02% |
| 5 | Alphabet, Inc. | 3.23% | 3.27% | 3.23% |
| 6 | Broadcom, Inc. | 2.81% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 7 | Alphabet, Inc. | 2.61% | 3.02% | 2.61% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 1.89% | 2.62% | 1.89% |
| 9 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 1.44% | 5.64% | 1.44% |
| 10 | Tesla, Inc. | 1.36% | 3.30% | 1.36% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 1.20% | 4.10% | 1.20% |
| 12 | Walmart, Inc. | 0.76% | 2.39% | 0.76% |
Only in BBUS
375 total- Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. 1.47%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.47%
- Eli Lilly & Co. 1.43%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 1.00%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.96%
- Visa, Inc. 0.94%
- Mastercard, Inc. 0.72%
- AbbVie, Inc. 0.69%
- Bank of America Corp. 0.63%
- GE Aerospace 0.58%
Only in QQQ
9 total- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Shopify Inc. 0.60%
- Honeywell Aerospace Inc. 0.30%
- Nebius Group N.V. 0.26%
- PDD Holdings Inc. 0.22%
- FERROVIAL NV 0.21%
- Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC 0.19%
- Thomson Reuters Corp. 0.13%
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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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