ETF comparison
QQQ vs SCHM
US Large Cap Growth vs US Mid Cap.
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SCHM 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
SCHM 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 SCHM.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SCHM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandisk Corp. | 1.46% | 4.64% | 1.46% |
| 2 | Lumentum Holdings Inc. | 0.29% | 1.13% | 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 SCHM
494 total- Ciena Corp 1.52%
- Bloom Energy Corp 1.36%
- Coherent Corp 1.26%
- Flex Ltd 1.03%
- Steel Dynamics Inc 0.66%
- Revolution Medicines Inc 0.57%
- Tapestry Inc 0.55%
- Twilio Inc 0.54%
- Casey's General Stores Inc 0.53%
- AST SpaceMobile Inc 0.52%
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- SCHM vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 57.2%
- SCHM vs IVOO · Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index Fund ETF Shares 54.6%
- SCHM vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 54.2%
- SCHM vs SPMD · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF 54.2%
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/.
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.