ETF comparison
MOATvsQQQ
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
16 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MOAT and QQQ would leave roughly16.3%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — seewhat we don't scorefor why.
Cost difference
QQQ is 28 bps cheaper than MOAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for MOAT.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open thecost calculator pre-filled with MOAT vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
16 shared in total| # | Holding | In MOAT | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 2.45% | 7.60% | 2.45% |
| 2 | Broadcom Inc | 2.43% | 2.81% | 2.43% |
| 3 | Applied Materials Inc | 2.34% | 2.49% | 2.34% |
| 4 | Microsoft Corp | 2.20% | 4.35% | 2.20% |
| 5 | Amazon.com Inc | 1.33% | 4.02% | 1.33% |
| 6 | Palo Alto Networks Inc | 2.51% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.17% | 2.62% | 1.17% |
| 8 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.17% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 9 | Fortinet Inc | 2.21% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 10 | Datadog Inc | 2.44% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 11 | MercadoLibre Inc | 1.28% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 12 | Mondelez International Inc | 2.34% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
Only in MOAT
40 total- Masco Corp2.96%
- Kenvue Inc2.59%
- Brown-Forman Corp2.49%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The2.45%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co2.43%
- Danaher Corp2.41%
- Veeva Systems Inc2.41%
- Constellation Brands Inc2.32%
- Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc2.30%
- LPL Financial Holdings Inc2.30%
Only in QQQ
86 total- Apple Inc.6.67%
- Micron Technology, Inc.5.64%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.4.10%
- Tesla, Inc.3.30%
- Alphabet Inc.3.27%
- Intel Corp.3.04%
- Alphabet Inc.3.02%
- Walmart Inc.2.39%
- Lam Research Corp.2.35%
- Cisco Systems, Inc.2.01%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.