ETF comparison
CGDV vs QQQ
Dividend vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
19 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and QQQ would leave roughly 34.4% 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
QQQ is 15 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/yr more in fees for CGDV.
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 CGDV vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
19 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.66% | 7.60% | 5.66% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 5.81% | 4.35% | 4.35% |
| 3 | Alphabet Inc | 3.59% | 3.27% | 3.27% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 5.16% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.33% | 2.62% | 2.62% |
| 6 | Applied Materials Inc | 3.12% | 2.49% | 2.49% |
| 7 | Apple Inc | 2.36% | 6.67% | 2.36% |
| 8 | Cisco Systems Inc | 3.02% | 2.01% | 2.01% |
| 9 | Amazon.com Inc | 1.88% | 4.02% | 1.88% |
| 10 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.21% | 1.17% | 1.17% |
| 11 | Intel Corp | 1.09% | 3.04% | 1.09% |
| 12 | Linde PLC | 1.95% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
Only in CGDV
33 total- Eli Lilly & Co 3.15%
- General Electric Co 3.08%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 2.83%
- RTX Corp 2.82%
- British American Tobacco PLC 2.66%
- Carrier Global Corp 2.64%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.16%
- Union Pacific Corp 2.12%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 2.02%
- Wells Fargo & Co 1.99%
Only in QQQ
83 total- Micron Technology, Inc. 5.64%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 4.10%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.02%
- Walmart Inc. 2.39%
- Lam Research Corp. 2.35%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 1.80%
- KLA Corp. 1.71%
- Sandisk Corp. 1.46%
- Netflix, Inc. 1.30%
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- CGDV vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 25.9%
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- QQQ vs IWX · iShares Russell Top 200 Value ETF 31.9%
- QQQ vs VOOV · Vanguard S&P 500 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 31.1%
- QQQ vs IUSV · iShares Core S&P U.S. Value ETF 30.6%
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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