ETF comparison
ESGU vs QQQ
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
69 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ESGU and QQQ would leave roughly 51.2% 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
ESGU is 3 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/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 ESGU vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
69 shared in total| # | Holding | In ESGU | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 7.77% | 7.60% | 7.60% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.83% | 6.67% | 6.67% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.73% | 4.35% | 4.35% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.82% | 4.02% | 3.82% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.72% | 3.02% | 3.02% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 3.07% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.94% | 2.62% | 1.94% |
| 8 | TESLA, INC. | 1.85% | 3.30% | 1.85% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.66% | 5.64% | 1.66% |
| 10 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.33% | 4.10% | 1.33% |
| 11 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.33% | 3.27% | 1.33% |
| 12 | INTEL CORPORATION | 0.85% | 3.04% | 0.85% |
Only in ESGU
218 total- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 1.33%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.17%
- VISA INC. 0.95%
- CATERPILLAR INC. 0.69%
- EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION 0.69%
- THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. 0.66%
- ABBVIE INC. 0.65%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 0.63%
- MASTERCARD INCORPORATED 0.63%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.61%
Only in QQQ
33 total- Walmart Inc. 2.39%
- Sandisk Corp. 1.46%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Shopify Inc. 0.60%
- Marriott International, Inc. 0.42%
- Monster Beverage Corp. 0.41%
- Astera Labs, Inc. 0.36%
- Teradyne, Inc. 0.33%
- American Electric Power Co., Inc. 0.32%
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- ESGU vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 38.1%
- ESGU vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 38.0%
- ESGU vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 31.8%
- ESGU vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 18.8%
More comparisons with QQQ
- QQQ vs VONE · Vanguard Russell 1000 Index Fund ETF Shares 51.1%
- QQQ vs SPTM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF 50.2%
- QQQ vs IWB · iShares Russell 1000 ETF 50.0%
- QQQ vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 49.7%
- QQQ vs FELC · Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Core ETF 49.5%
- QQQ vs GSLC · Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF 49.1%
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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