ETF comparison
CALF vs QQQ
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CALF and QQQ would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
QQQ is 41 bps cheaper than CALF. On a $100,000 position that's about $410/yr more in fees for CALF.
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 CALF vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in CALF
198 total- Tenet Healthcare Corp 2.75%
- Expedia Group Inc 2.47%
- Expand Energy Corp 2.00%
- Omnicom Group Inc 1.94%
- EQT Corp 1.93%
- Zoom Communications Inc 1.93%
- Biogen Inc 1.91%
- Ovintiv Inc 1.79%
- CF Industries Holdings Inc 1.79%
- HF Sinclair Corp 1.73%
Only in QQQ
102 total- NVIDIA Corp. 7.60%
- Apple Inc. 6.67%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 5.64%
- Microsoft Corp. 4.35%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 4.10%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 4.02%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.27%
- Intel Corp. 3.04%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.02%
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- CALF vs AVUV · Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF 14.4%
- CALF vs VIOV · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 11.6%
- CALF vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 11.1%
- CALF vs DFAS · U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 11.0%
More comparisons with QQQ
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- QQQ vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 0.0%
- QQQ vs DFSV · DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 0.0%
- QQQ vs DGS · WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend Fund 0.0%
- QQQ vs DON · WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Dividend Fund 0.0%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.