ETF comparison
DFAU vs QQQ
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
91 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and QQQ would leave roughly 45.7% 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
DFAU is 6 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/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 DFAU vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
91 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.74% | 7.60% | 6.74% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 6.67% | 6.45% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.09% | 4.35% | 4.35% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.59% | 4.02% | 3.59% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.74% | 3.27% | 2.74% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.34% | 2.81% | 2.34% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.28% | 3.02% | 2.28% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.79% | 2.62% | 1.79% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.39% | 5.64% | 1.39% |
| 10 | TESLA, INC. | 1.08% | 3.30% | 1.08% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 0.86% | 4.10% | 0.86% |
| 12 | WALMART INC. | 0.58% | 2.39% | 0.58% |
Only in DFAU
2,099 total- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.28%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 1.24%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.11%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.88%
- VISA INC. 0.75%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.73%
- MASTERCARD INCORPORATED 0.64%
- ABBVIE INC. 0.54%
- MERCK & CO., INC. 0.50%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION 0.50%
Only in QQQ
11 total- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Shopify Inc. 0.60%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.37%
- Nebius Group N.V. 0.26%
- Electronic Arts Inc. 0.22%
- 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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