ETF comparison
DSI vs QQQ
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
51 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DSI and QQQ would leave roughly 39.5% 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 7 bps cheaper than DSI. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for DSI.
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 DSI vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
51 shared in total| # | Holding | In DSI | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 13.42% | 7.60% | 7.60% |
| 2 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 9.49% | 4.35% | 4.35% |
| 3 | ALPHABET INC. | 6.00% | 3.27% | 3.27% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.77% | 3.02% | 3.02% |
| 5 | TESLA, INC. | 2.54% | 3.30% | 2.54% |
| 6 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 2.25% | 4.10% | 2.25% |
| 7 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 1.33% | 2.01% | 1.33% |
| 8 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 1.17% | 2.49% | 1.17% |
| 9 | INTEL CORPORATION | 1.15% | 3.04% | 1.15% |
| 10 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 1.06% | 2.35% | 1.06% |
| 11 | PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC. | 0.78% | 1.21% | 0.78% |
| 12 | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED | 0.73% | 1.17% | 0.73% |
Only in DSI
351 total- VISA INC. 1.78%
- MASTERCARD INCORPORATED 1.36%
- ABBVIE INC. 1.29%
- CATERPILLAR INC. 1.10%
- THE COCA-COLA COMPANY 0.98%
- THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY 0.97%
- THE HOME DEPOT, INC. 0.96%
- MERCK & CO., INC. 0.93%
- MORGAN STANLEY 0.72%
- ORACLE CORPORATION 0.65%
Only in QQQ
51 total- Apple Inc. 6.67%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 5.64%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 4.02%
- Broadcom Inc. 2.81%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 2.62%
- Walmart Inc. 2.39%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 1.80%
- KLA Corp. 1.71%
- Sandisk Corp. 1.46%
- Netflix, Inc. 1.30%
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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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