ETF comparison
IVV vs QQQ
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
88 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IVV and QQQ would leave roughly 54.4% 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
IVV is 15 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/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 IVV vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
88 shared in total| # | Holding | In IVV | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.51% | 7.60% | 7.51% |
| 2 | Apple, Inc. | 6.58% | 6.67% | 6.58% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 4.29% | 4.35% | 4.29% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 3.61% | 4.02% | 3.61% |
| 5 | Alphabet, Inc. | 3.25% | 3.27% | 3.25% |
| 6 | Broadcom, Inc. | 2.77% | 2.81% | 2.77% |
| 7 | Alphabet, Inc. | 2.59% | 3.02% | 2.59% |
| 8 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 2.02% | 5.64% | 2.02% |
| 9 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 1.92% | 2.62% | 1.92% |
| 10 | Tesla, Inc. | 1.83% | 3.30% | 1.83% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 1.47% | 4.10% | 1.47% |
| 12 | Intel Corp. | 1.02% | 3.04% | 1.02% |
Only in IVV
416 total- Eli Lilly & Co. 1.47%
- Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. 1.42%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.36%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.95%
- Visa, Inc. 0.88%
- Exxon Mobil Corp. 0.88%
- Caterpillar, Inc. 0.76%
- AbbVie, Inc. 0.69%
- Mastercard, Inc. 0.64%
- GE Aerospace 0.60%
Only in QQQ
14 total- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Shopify Inc. 0.60%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.37%
- Astera Labs, Inc. 0.36%
- Nebius Group N.V. 0.26%
- Rocket Lab Corp. 0.25%
- PDD Holdings Inc. 0.22%
- FERROVIAL NV 0.21%
- Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC 0.19%
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- IVV vs SCHG · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF 53.1%
- IVV vs DSI · iShares ESG MSCI KLD 400 ETF 53.0%
- IVV vs FELG · Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Growth ETF 52.4%
- IVV vs OMFL · Invesco Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF 52.1%
- IVV vs FBCG · Fidelity Blue Chip Growth ETF 51.0%
More comparisons with QQQ
- QQQ vs OEF · iShares S&P 100 ETF 54.4%
- QQQ vs ESGV · Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF 54.1%
- QQQ vs IUSG · iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF 53.7%
- QQQ vs VONG · Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 53.6%
- QQQ vs VOOG · Vanguard S&P 500 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 53.4%
- QQQ vs SPY · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 53.0%
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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