ETF comparison
MOAT vs QQQ
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
16 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MOAT and QQQ would leave roughly 16.3% 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
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 the cost 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
39 total- Masco Corp 2.96%
- Kenvue Inc 2.59%
- Brown-Forman Corp 2.49%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 2.45%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 2.43%
- Danaher Corp 2.41%
- Veeva Systems Inc 2.41%
- Constellation Brands Inc 2.32%
- Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc 2.30%
- LPL Financial Holdings Inc 2.30%
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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- QQQ vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 10.9%
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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