ETF comparison
DLN vs QQQ
Dividend vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
49 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DLN and QQQ would leave roughly 30.4% 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 10 bps cheaper than DLN. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for DLN.
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 DLN vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
49 shared in total| # | Holding | In DLN | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 3.69% | 4.35% | 3.69% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORP | 3.58% | 7.60% | 3.58% |
| 3 | APPLE INC | 2.18% | 6.67% | 2.18% |
| 4 | BROADCOM INC | 2.18% | 2.81% | 2.18% |
| 5 | META PLATFORMS INC | 1.79% | 2.62% | 1.79% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC | 1.45% | 3.27% | 1.45% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC | 1.32% | 3.02% | 1.32% |
| 8 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 1.29% | 2.01% | 1.29% |
| 9 | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC | 1.11% | 1.17% | 1.11% |
| 10 | WALMART INC | 0.97% | 2.39% | 0.97% |
| 11 | AMGEN INC | 1.06% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 12 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC | 0.84% | 5.64% | 0.84% |
Only in DLN
260 total- JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 2.88%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2.03%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.85%
- ABBVIE INC 1.75%
- MORGAN STANLEY 1.50%
- CHEVRON CORP 1.47%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 1.43%
- MERCK & COMPANY INC 1.40%
- COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) 1.33%
- ELI LILLY & COMPANY 1.30%
Only in QQQ
53 total- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 4.10%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 4.02%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Intel Corp. 3.04%
- Sandisk Corp. 1.46%
- Netflix, Inc. 1.30%
- Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 1.21%
- Palantir Technologies Inc. 1.16%
- Linde PLC 1.04%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.94%
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- QQQ vs AVLV · Avantis US Large Cap Value ETF 26.9%
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- QQQ vs SPHQ · Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF 26.8%
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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