ETF comparison
QQQ vs SCHD
US Large Cap Growth vs Dividend.
Holdings overlap
8 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SCHD would leave roughly 4.8% 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
SCHD is 12 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/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 SCHD.
Top shared holdings
8 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SCHD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas Instruments Inc. | 1.17% | 5.90% | 1.17% |
| 2 | Amgen Inc. | 0.85% | 3.47% | 0.85% |
| 3 | QUALCOMM Inc. | 0.84% | 6.74% | 0.84% |
| 4 | PepsiCo, Inc. | 0.80% | 3.44% | 0.80% |
| 5 | Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | 0.39% | 2.25% | 0.39% |
| 6 | Comcast Corp. | 0.38% | 2.25% | 0.38% |
| 7 | Fastenal Co. | 0.24% | 1.28% | 0.24% |
| 8 | Paychex, Inc. | 0.15% | 0.79% | 0.15% |
Only in QQQ
94 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 SCHD
91 total- UnitedHealth Group Inc 5.09%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 3.96%
- Merck & Co Inc 3.86%
- Chevron Corp 3.83%
- Verizon Communications Inc 3.65%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 3.55%
- ConocoPhillips 3.51%
- Home Depot Inc/The 3.36%
- Abbott Laboratories 2.96%
- Altria Group Inc 2.94%
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- QQQ vs HDV · iShares Core High Dividend ETF 2.8%
More comparisons with SCHD
- SCHD vs DON · WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Dividend Fund 4.6%
- SCHD vs CGUS · Capital Group Core Equity ETF 4.4%
- SCHD vs VBR · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF 4.3%
- SCHD vs DFAS · U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 3.7%
- SCHD vs IVOO · Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index Fund ETF Shares 3.5%
- SCHD vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 3.4%
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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