ETF comparison
QQQ vs SPHB
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
31 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SPHB would leave roughly 24.0% 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 7 bps cheaper than SPHB. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for SPHB.
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 SPHB.
Top shared holdings
31 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SPHB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 5.64% | 1.92% | 1.92% |
| 2 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 4.10% | 1.50% | 1.50% |
| 3 | Sandisk Corp. | 1.46% | 2.20% | 1.46% |
| 4 | Lam Research Corp. | 2.35% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 5 | KLA Corp. | 1.71% | 1.23% | 1.23% |
| 6 | Tesla, Inc. | 3.30% | 1.20% | 1.20% |
| 7 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 2.49% | 1.19% | 1.19% |
| 8 | Palantir Technologies Inc. | 1.16% | 1.19% | 1.16% |
| 9 | Intel Corp. | 3.04% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
| 10 | Broadcom Inc. | 2.81% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 11 | Western Digital Corp. | 0.95% | 1.33% | 0.95% |
| 12 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.60% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
Only in QQQ
71 total- Apple Inc. 6.67%
- Microsoft Corp. 4.35%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.27%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.02%
- Walmart Inc. 2.39%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 2.01%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 1.80%
- Netflix, Inc. 1.30%
- Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 1.21%
- Texas Instruments Inc. 1.17%
Only in SPHB
70 total- Super Micro Computer, Inc. 1.96%
- Robinhood Markets, Inc. 1.95%
- Coinbase Global, Inc. 1.62%
- Dell Technologies Inc. 1.57%
- Coherent Corp. 1.53%
- United Airlines Holdings, Inc. 1.38%
- Ciena Corp. 1.32%
- Arista Networks, Inc. 1.26%
- Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. 1.24%
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. 1.24%
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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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