ETF comparison
QQQ vs QUAL
US Large Cap Growth vs Quality Factor.
Holdings overlap
35 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and QUAL would leave roughly 40.9% 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
QUAL is 3 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/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 QQQ vs QUAL.
Top shared holdings
35 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In QUAL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc. | 6.67% | 6.64% | 6.64% |
| 2 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.60% | 5.85% | 5.85% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 4.35% | 7.16% | 4.35% |
| 4 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 2.62% | 3.69% | 2.62% |
| 5 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 2.49% | 3.10% | 2.49% |
| 6 | Lam Research Corp. | 2.35% | 3.49% | 2.35% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.27% | 2.05% | 2.05% |
| 8 | KLA Corp. | 1.71% | 2.47% | 1.71% |
| 9 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.02% | 1.63% | 1.63% |
| 10 | Netflix, Inc. | 1.30% | 1.71% | 1.30% |
| 11 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 1.80% | 1.11% | 1.11% |
| 12 | Linde PLC | 1.04% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
Only in QQQ
67 total- Micron Technology, Inc. 5.64%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 4.10%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 4.02%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Intel Corp. 3.04%
- Broadcom Inc. 2.81%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 2.01%
- Sandisk Corp. 1.46%
- Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 1.21%
- Texas Instruments Inc. 1.17%
Only in QUAL
90 total- THE TJX COMPANIES, INC. 3.98%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 3.66%
- VISA INC. 3.17%
- MASTERCARD INCORPORATED 2.28%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 2.18%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2.06%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.84%
- ARISTA NETWORKS, INC. 1.38%
- MERCK & CO., INC. 1.25%
- CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL, INC. 0.98%
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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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