ETF comparison
IWF vs QQQ
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
61 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWF and QQQ would leave roughly 58.2% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.18% vs 0.18%).
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 IWF vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
61 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWF | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 13.83% | 7.60% | 7.60% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.72% | 6.67% | 6.67% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.11% | 4.35% | 4.11% |
| 4 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 3.86% | 5.64% | 3.86% |
| 5 | TESLA, INC. | 3.64% | 3.30% | 3.30% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 6.17% | 3.27% | 3.27% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 4.98% | 3.02% | 3.02% |
| 8 | BROADCOM INC. | 5.21% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 9 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 2.80% | 4.10% | 2.80% |
| 10 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 3.00% | 2.62% | 2.62% |
| 11 | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. | 1.70% | 2.49% | 1.70% |
| 12 | LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION | 1.60% | 2.35% | 1.60% |
Only in IWF
307 total- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 2.84%
- VISA INC. 1.68%
- CATERPILLAR INC. 1.43%
- MASTERCARD INCORPORATED 1.23%
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 1.14%
- GE VERNOVA INC. 0.94%
- THE HOME DEPOT, INC. 0.77%
- ORACLE CORPORATION 0.74%
- AMPHENOL CORPORATION 0.64%
- CORNING INCORPORATED 0.60%
Only in QQQ
41 total- Intel Corp. 3.04%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 2.01%
- Linde PLC 1.04%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.94%
- QUALCOMM Inc. 0.84%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- T-Mobile US, Inc. 0.79%
- Gilead Sciences, Inc. 0.68%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Shopify Inc. 0.60%
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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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