ETF comparison
QQQ vs SMLF
US Large Cap Growth vs Multi-Factor.
Invesco QQQ Trust · iShares U.S. Small-Cap Equity Factor ETF
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SMLF would leave roughly 0.4% 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
SMLF is 3 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/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 SMLF.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SMLF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astera Labs, Inc. | 0.36% | 0.70% | 0.36% |
Only in QQQ
101 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 SMLF
891 total- EMCOR Group, Inc. 0.95%
- Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. 0.83%
- nVent Electric plc 0.80%
- Flex Ltd. 0.78%
- Jabil, Inc. 0.75%
- Tapestry, Inc. 0.66%
- Natera, Inc. 0.62%
- Williams-Sonoma, Inc. 0.61%
- Mueller Industries, Inc. 0.59%
- Reliance, Inc. 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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