ETF comparison
GSLC vs QQQ
Multi-Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF · Invesco QQQ Trust
Holdings overlap
81 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GSLC and QQQ would leave roughly 49.1% 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
GSLC is 9 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/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 GSLC vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
81 shared in total| # | Holding | In GSLC | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 7.87% | 7.60% | 7.60% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 7.00% | 6.67% | 6.67% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORP | 4.87% | 4.35% | 4.35% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 3.78% | 4.02% | 3.78% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC | 3.31% | 3.27% | 3.27% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC | 2.84% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS INC | 2.14% | 2.62% | 2.14% |
| 8 | ALPHABET INC | 1.89% | 3.02% | 1.89% |
| 9 | TESLA INC | 1.28% | 3.30% | 1.28% |
| 10 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC | 1.10% | 5.64% | 1.10% |
| 11 | WALMART INC | 0.84% | 2.39% | 0.84% |
| 12 | LAM RESEARCH CORP | 0.71% | 2.35% | 0.71% |
Only in GSLC
355 total- ELI LILLY & COMPANY 1.17%
- JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 1.10%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC 0.85%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.73%
- VISA INC 0.70%
- EXXON MOBIL CORP 0.62%
- MASTERCARD INC 0.61%
- TJX COMPANIES INC (THE) 0.44%
- VERISIGN INC 0.42%
- HOME DEPOT INC (THE) 0.39%
Only in QQQ
21 total- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Shopify Inc. 0.60%
- Starbucks Corp. 0.50%
- Datadog, Inc. 0.37%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.37%
- DoorDash, Inc. 0.33%
- Mondelez International, Inc. 0.32%
- Honeywell International Inc. 0.31%
- Honeywell Aerospace Inc. 0.30%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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