ETF comparison
IWS vs QQQ
US Mid Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
17 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWS and QQQ would leave roughly 2.9% 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
QQQ is 5 bps cheaper than IWS. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for IWS.
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 IWS vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
17 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWS | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY INC | 0.63% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 2 | BAKER HUGHES COMPANY | 0.54% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 3 | ELECTRONIC ARTS INC | 0.43% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 4 | XCEL ENERGY INC | 0.49% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 5 | DIAMONDBACK ENERGY INC | 0.33% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 6 | EXELON CORP | 0.47% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 7 | OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE INC | 0.31% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 8 | KEURIG DR PEPPER INC | 0.42% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 9 | PAYPAL HOLDINGS INC | 0.38% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 10 | PAYCHEX INC | 0.31% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 11 | ROPER TECHNOLOGIES INC | 0.34% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 12 | GE HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES INC | 0.29% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
Only in IWS
703 total- PHILLIPS 66 0.62%
- DIGITAL REALTY TRUST INC 0.62%
- KINDER MORGAN INC 0.61%
- ALLSTATE CORP (THE) 0.60%
- HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY 0.59%
- FLEX LTD 0.58%
- REALTY INCOME CORP 0.57%
- DELTA AIR LINES INC 0.56%
- CORTEVA INC 0.56%
- AMETEK INC 0.54%
Only in QQQ
85 total- NVIDIA Corp. 7.60%
- Apple Inc. 6.67%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 5.64%
- Microsoft Corp. 4.35%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 4.10%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 4.02%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.27%
- Intel Corp. 3.04%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.02%
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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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