ETF comparison
CGUS vs QQQ
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
20 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGUS and QQQ would leave roughly 39.4% 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 CGUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/yr more in fees for CGUS.
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 CGUS vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
20 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGUS | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 6.85% | 7.60% | 6.85% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 5.75% | 4.35% | 4.35% |
| 3 | Amazon.com Inc | 5.04% | 4.02% | 4.02% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 3.22% | 3.27% | 3.22% |
| 5 | Broadcom Inc | 6.33% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 6 | Apple Inc | 2.76% | 6.67% | 2.76% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.79% | 2.62% | 2.62% |
| 8 | Applied Materials Inc | 2.57% | 2.49% | 2.49% |
| 9 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.95% | 2.01% | 1.95% |
| 10 | Alphabet Inc | 1.93% | 3.02% | 1.93% |
| 11 | Netflix Inc | 1.30% | 1.30% | 1.30% |
| 12 | Linde PLC | 1.34% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
Only in CGUS
45 total- Eli Lilly & Co 3.92%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.44%
- RTX Corp 1.95%
- British American Tobacco PLC 1.87%
- Mastercard Inc 1.82%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.79%
- Blackrock Inc 1.56%
- General Electric Co 1.41%
- Amphenol Corp 1.35%
- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 1.33%
Only in QQQ
82 total- Micron Technology, Inc. 5.64%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 4.10%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Walmart Inc. 2.39%
- Lam Research Corp. 2.35%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 1.80%
- Sandisk Corp. 1.46%
- Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 1.21%
- Texas Instruments Inc. 1.17%
- Palantir Technologies Inc. 1.16%
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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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