ETF comparison
QQQ vs SDY
US Large Cap Growth vs Dividend.
Holdings overlap
15 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SDY would leave roughly 6.7% 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
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Cost difference
QQQ is 17 bps cheaper than SDY. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for SDY.
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 SDY.
Top shared holdings
15 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SDY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas Instruments Inc. | 1.17% | 1.55% | 1.17% |
| 2 | QUALCOMM Inc. | 0.84% | 1.57% | 0.84% |
| 3 | PepsiCo, Inc. | 0.80% | 1.33% | 0.80% |
| 4 | Analog Devices, Inc. | 0.84% | 0.61% | 0.61% |
| 5 | Linde PLC | 1.04% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 6 | Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | 0.39% | 1.54% | 0.39% |
| 7 | CSX Corp. | 0.38% | 0.62% | 0.38% |
| 8 | Microsoft Corp. | 4.35% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 9 | Cintas Corp. | 0.29% | 0.43% | 0.29% |
| 10 | Walmart Inc. | 2.39% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 11 | Fastenal Co. | 0.24% | 0.90% | 0.24% |
| 12 | Xcel Energy Inc. | 0.22% | 1.26% | 0.22% |
Only in QQQ
87 total- NVIDIA Corp. 7.60%
- Apple Inc. 6.67%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 5.64%
- 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%
- Broadcom Inc. 2.81%
Only in SDY
140 total- Verizon Communications Inc 2.14%
- Realty Income Corp 2.14%
- Kenvue Inc 1.75%
- Kimberly-Clark Corp 1.75%
- AbbVie Inc 1.62%
- Target Corp 1.55%
- Edison International 1.45%
- Sysco Corp 1.41%
- WEC Energy Group Inc 1.41%
- Eversource Energy 1.35%
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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/.
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.