ETF comparison
MGC vs QQQ
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
54 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and QQQ would leave roughly 54.7% 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
MGC is 13 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/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 MGC vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
54 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 9.10% | 7.60% | 7.60% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 8.55% | 6.67% | 6.67% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 6.24% | 4.35% | 4.35% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.88% | 4.02% | 4.02% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 4.13% | 3.27% | 3.27% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc | 3.25% | 3.02% | 3.02% |
| 7 | Broadcom Inc | 3.95% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.58% | 2.62% | 2.58% |
| 9 | Tesla Inc | 2.29% | 3.30% | 2.29% |
| 10 | Micron Technology Inc | 2.04% | 5.64% | 2.04% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.57% | 4.10% | 1.57% |
| 12 | Walmart Inc | 0.95% | 2.39% | 0.95% |
Only in MGC
119 total- Eli Lilly & Co 1.75%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.53%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.41%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.13%
- Visa Inc 1.02%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.01%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.76%
- Mastercard Inc 0.73%
- Oracle Corp 0.73%
- AbbVie Inc 0.72%
Only in QQQ
48 total- Western Digital Corp. 0.95%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.94%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Shopify Inc. 0.60%
- Constellation Energy Corp. 0.39%
- Datadog, Inc. 0.37%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.37%
- Astera Labs, Inc. 0.36%
- DoorDash, Inc. 0.33%
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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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