ETF comparison
IWY vs QQQ
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
44 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWY and QQQ would leave roughly 60.3% 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 2 bps cheaper than IWY. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for IWY.
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 IWY vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
44 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWY | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORP | 14.16% | 7.60% | 7.60% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 7.14% | 6.67% | 6.67% |
| 3 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC | 4.87% | 5.64% | 4.87% |
| 4 | MICROSOFT CORP | 4.56% | 4.35% | 4.35% |
| 5 | TESLA INC | 4.59% | 3.30% | 3.30% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC | 6.37% | 3.27% | 3.27% |
| 7 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC | 3.25% | 4.10% | 3.25% |
| 8 | ALPHABET INC | 5.14% | 3.02% | 3.02% |
| 9 | BROADCOM INC | 5.64% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 10 | META PLATFORMS INC | 3.68% | 2.62% | 2.62% |
| 11 | APPLIED MATERIALS INC | 1.97% | 2.49% | 1.97% |
| 12 | LAM RESEARCH CORP | 1.86% | 2.35% | 1.86% |
Only in IWY
57 total- ELI LILLY & COMPANY 3.35%
- VISA INC 1.95%
- CATERPILLAR INC 1.67%
- MASTERCARD INC 1.43%
- GE AEROSPACE 1.33%
- GE VERNOVA INC 1.09%
- HOME DEPOT INC (THE) 0.90%
- ORACLE CORP 0.86%
- AMPHENOL CORP 0.74%
- CORNING INC 0.70%
Only in QQQ
58 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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