ETF comparison
IWY vs QQQ
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
47 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IWY and QQQ would leave roughly 59.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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
47 shared in total| # | Holding | In IWY | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 14.62% | 8.68% | 8.68% |
| 2 | Apple Inc. | 13.13% | 7.63% | 7.63% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 9.91% | 5.63% | 5.63% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.46% | 4.58% | 4.46% |
| 5 | Tesla Inc | 3.52% | 3.80% | 3.52% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.93% | 3.43% | 3.43% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 3.42% | 3.46% | 3.42% |
| 8 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.20% | 3.20% | 3.20% |
| 9 | Broadcom Inc | 4.31% | 3.01% | 3.01% |
| 10 | Costco Wholesale Corporation | 1.88% | 2.50% | 1.88% |
| 11 | Netflix, Inc. | 1.73% | 2.30% | 1.73% |
| 12 | Palantir Technologies Inc | 1.36% | 1.90% | 1.36% |
Only in IWY
63 total- Eli Lilly & Co. 2.88%
- Visa Inc 2.16%
- MasterCard Incorporated 1.71%
- AbbVie Inc. 1.64%
- GE Aerospace 1.25%
- Home Depot Inc. 1.06%
- Oracle Corp. 1.05%
- GE Vernova Inc. 1.00%
- Amphenol Corporation 0.66%
- Uber Technologies Inc 0.62%
Only in QQQ
54 total- Micron Technology, Inc. 2.15%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 1.73%
- T-Mobile US, Inc. 1.31%
- Linde PLC 1.30%
- Intel Corp. 1.25%
- Analog Devices, Inc. 0.88%
- Shopify Inc. 0.82%
- Honeywell International Inc. 0.81%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.66%
- Comcast Corp. 0.58%
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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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