ETF comparison
QQQ vs SCHX
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
89 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SCHX would leave roughly 52.1% 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
SCHX 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 SCHX.
Top shared holdings
89 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SCHX | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.60% | 7.50% | 7.50% |
| 2 | Apple Inc. | 6.67% | 6.69% | 6.67% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 4.35% | 4.88% | 4.35% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.02% | 3.86% | 3.86% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.27% | 3.24% | 3.24% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc. | 2.81% | 3.10% | 2.81% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.02% | 2.57% | 2.57% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 2.62% | 2.02% | 2.02% |
| 9 | Tesla, Inc. | 3.30% | 1.79% | 1.79% |
| 10 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 5.64% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 4.10% | 1.23% | 1.23% |
| 12 | Intel Corp. | 3.04% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
Only in QQQ
13 total- Sandisk Corp. 1.46%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Shopify Inc. 0.60%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.37%
- Honeywell International Inc. 0.31%
- Honeywell Aerospace Inc. 0.30%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc. 0.29%
- Nebius Group N.V. 0.26%
- PDD Holdings Inc. 0.22%
Only in SCHX
659 total- Eli Lilly & Co 1.28%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.27%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.18%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.89%
- Visa Inc 0.80%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.79%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.60%
- Mastercard Inc 0.59%
- AbbVie Inc 0.56%
- Oracle Corp 0.56%
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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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