ETF comparison
JQUA vs QQQ
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
57 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of JQUA and QQQ would leave roughly 36.5% 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
JQUA is 6 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/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 JQUA vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
57 shared in total| # | Holding | In JQUA | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple, Inc. | 2.08% | 6.67% | 2.08% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp. | 2.01% | 4.35% | 2.01% |
| 3 | Broadcom, Inc. | 2.00% | 2.81% | 2.00% |
| 4 | Alphabet, Inc. | 1.94% | 3.27% | 1.94% |
| 5 | NVIDIA Corp. | 1.92% | 7.60% | 1.92% |
| 6 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 1.83% | 4.10% | 1.83% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 1.66% | 2.62% | 1.66% |
| 8 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 1.65% | 5.64% | 1.65% |
| 9 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 1.35% | 2.01% | 1.35% |
| 10 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 1.21% | 1.80% | 1.21% |
| 11 | Lam Research Corp. | 1.04% | 2.35% | 1.04% |
| 12 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 1.04% | 2.49% | 1.04% |
Only in JQUA
250 total- Visa, Inc. 1.75%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 1.73%
- Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. 1.71%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.63%
- Mastercard, Inc. 1.38%
- AbbVie, Inc. 1.24%
- Merck & Co., Inc. 1.02%
- Procter & Gamble Co. (The) 0.99%
- Home Depot, Inc. (The) 0.98%
- GE Vernova, Inc. 0.90%
Only in QQQ
45 total- Amazon.com, Inc. 4.02%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Intel Corp. 3.04%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.02%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.94%
- PepsiCo, Inc. 0.80%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- T-Mobile US, Inc. 0.79%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Intuitive Surgical, Inc. 0.61%
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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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