ETF comparison
QQQ vs SCHA
US Large Cap Growth vs US Small Cap.
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SCHA would leave roughly 1.7% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SCHA is 15 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/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 SCHA.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SCHA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandisk Corp. | 1.46% | 5.28% | 1.46% |
| 2 | Lumentum Holdings Inc. | 0.29% | 1.29% | 0.29% |
Only in QQQ
100 total- NVIDIA Corp. 7.60%
- Apple Inc. 6.67%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 5.64%
- Microsoft Corp. 4.35%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 4.10%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 4.02%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.27%
- Intel Corp. 3.04%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.02%
Only in SCHA
1,703 total- Revolution Medicines Inc 0.65%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.56%
- ATI Inc 0.50%
- MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc 0.50%
- Nextpower Inc 0.49%
- MKS Inc 0.46%
- Coeur Mining Inc 0.42%
- TTM Technologies Inc 0.38%
- EchoStar Corp 0.37%
- Guardant Health Inc 0.35%
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- QQQ vs RPV · Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value ETF 1.4%
- QQQ vs AVMV · Avantis U.S. Mid Cap Value ETF 1.3%
- QQQ vs SPHD · Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF 0.9%
More comparisons with SCHA
- SCHA vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 1.2%
- SCHA vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 0.8%
- SCHA vs VOO · Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 0.6%
- SCHA vs IVV · iShares Core S&P 500 ETF 0.6%
- SCHA vs SPYM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF 0.6%
- SCHA vs SPY · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 0.5%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open QQQ or SCHA at a brokerage
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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.