ETF comparison
IWB vs QQQ
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
91 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWB and QQQ would leave roughly 50.0% 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
IWB 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 IWB vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
91 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWB | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.72% | 7.60% | 6.72% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.03% | 6.67% | 6.03% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 3.99% | 4.35% | 3.99% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.33% | 4.02% | 3.33% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.00% | 3.27% | 3.00% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.53% | 2.81% | 2.53% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.42% | 3.02% | 2.42% |
| 8 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.87% | 5.64% | 1.87% |
| 9 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.78% | 2.62% | 1.78% |
| 10 | TESLA, INC. | 1.77% | 3.30% | 1.77% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.36% | 4.10% | 1.36% |
| 12 | INTEL CORPORATION | 0.88% | 3.04% | 0.88% |
Only in IWB
933 total- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 1.38%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.34%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.26%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.88%
- EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION 0.82%
- VISA INC. 0.82%
- CATERPILLAR INC. 0.70%
- ABBVIE INC. 0.64%
- MASTERCARD INCORPORATED 0.60%
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 0.56%
Only in QQQ
11 total- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.94%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Shopify Inc. 0.60%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.37%
- NXP Semiconductors N.V. 0.31%
- Nebius Group N.V. 0.26%
- PDD Holdings Inc. 0.22%
- FERROVIAL NV 0.21%
- Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC 0.19%
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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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