ETF comparison
QQQ vs SCHG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
48 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SCHG would leave roughly 59.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SCHG is 14 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/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 SCHG.
Top shared holdings
48 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SCHG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 8.68% | 10.83% | 8.68% |
| 2 | Apple Inc. | 7.63% | 9.82% | 7.63% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 5.63% | 7.34% | 5.63% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.58% | 5.14% | 4.58% |
| 5 | Tesla, Inc. | 3.80% | 4.22% | 3.80% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 3.46% | 4.58% | 3.46% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.43% | 4.56% | 3.43% |
| 8 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.20% | 3.64% | 3.20% |
| 9 | Broadcom Inc. | 3.01% | 3.93% | 3.01% |
| 10 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 2.50% | 1.70% | 1.70% |
| 11 | Netflix, Inc. | 2.30% | 1.55% | 1.55% |
| 12 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 1.88% | 1.24% | 1.24% |
Only in QQQ
53 total- Walmart Inc. 3.43%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 2.15%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 1.73%
- Applied Materials, Inc. 1.53%
- Lam Research Corp. 1.51%
- Intel Corp. 1.25%
- PepsiCo, Inc. 1.20%
- Amgen Inc. 1.07%
- Texas Instruments Inc. 1.00%
- Gilead Sciences, Inc. 0.98%
Only in SCHG
147 total- Eli Lilly & Co 3.17%
- Visa Inc 2.05%
- Mastercard Inc 1.61%
- General Electric Co 1.37%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.01%
- GE Vernova Inc 0.90%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 0.74%
- Walt Disney Co/The 0.72%
- Salesforce Inc 0.70%
- Uber Technologies Inc 0.59%
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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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