ETF comparison
MGV vs QQQ
US Value vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
22 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGV and QQQ would leave roughly 24.6% 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
MGV 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 MGV vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
22 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGV | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Micron Technology Inc | 5.26% | 5.64% | 5.26% |
| 2 | Walmart Inc | 2.44% | 2.39% | 2.39% |
| 3 | Intel Corp | 2.20% | 3.04% | 2.20% |
| 4 | Cisco Systems Inc | 2.06% | 2.01% | 2.01% |
| 5 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 2.04% | 1.80% | 1.80% |
| 6 | Applied Materials Inc | 1.72% | 2.49% | 1.72% |
| 7 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.33% | 1.17% | 1.17% |
| 8 | Linde PLC | 1.11% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
| 9 | Amgen Inc | 0.87% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 10 | QUALCOMM Inc | 1.29% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 11 | Analog Devices Inc | 0.97% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 12 | PepsiCo Inc | 0.95% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
Only in MGV
98 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.64%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 3.15%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 2.91%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.61%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.96%
- AbbVie Inc 1.85%
- Chevron Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.66%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.60%
- Bank of America Corp 1.60%
Only in QQQ
80 total- NVIDIA Corp. 7.60%
- Apple Inc. 6.67%
- Microsoft Corp. 4.35%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 4.10%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 4.02%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.27%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.02%
- Broadcom Inc. 2.81%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 2.62%
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- MGV vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 4.2%
- MGV vs VOE · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF 3.9%
More comparisons with QQQ
- QQQ vs SPHB · Invesco S&P 500 High Beta ETF 24.0%
- QQQ vs USMV · iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF 24.0%
- QQQ vs JAVA · JPMorgan Active Value ETF 22.0%
- QQQ vs SCHV · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Value ETF 21.8%
- QQQ vs RDVY · First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF 21.6%
- QQQ vs DIA · State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust 20.8%
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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