ETF comparison
QQQ vs SPHQ
US Large Cap Growth vs Quality Factor.
Holdings overlap
27 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SPHQ would leave roughly 26.8% 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
SPHQ 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 SPHQ.
Top shared holdings
27 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SPHQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc. | 6.67% | 5.21% | 5.21% |
| 2 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 2.49% | 2.63% | 2.49% |
| 3 | Lam Research Corp. | 2.35% | 3.97% | 2.35% |
| 4 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 2.01% | 3.73% | 2.01% |
| 5 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 1.80% | 3.99% | 1.80% |
| 6 | KLA Corp. | 1.71% | 2.37% | 1.71% |
| 7 | Sandisk Corp. | 1.46% | 2.37% | 1.46% |
| 8 | Netflix, Inc. | 1.30% | 3.71% | 1.30% |
| 9 | Texas Instruments Inc. | 1.17% | 2.21% | 1.17% |
| 10 | Western Digital Corp. | 0.95% | 3.08% | 0.95% |
| 11 | Seagate Technology Holdings PLC | 0.94% | 1.50% | 0.94% |
| 12 | QUALCOMM Inc. | 0.84% | 2.05% | 0.84% |
Only in QQQ
75 total- NVIDIA Corp. 7.60%
- 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%
- Broadcom Inc. 2.81%
Only in SPHQ
74 total- Mastercard Inc. 5.76%
- Visa Inc. 5.57%
- GE Vernova Inc. 4.13%
- General Electric Co. 3.95%
- Procter & Gamble Co. (The) 2.85%
- TJX Cos., Inc. (The) 1.58%
- Newmont Corp. 1.44%
- Progressive Corp. (The) 1.33%
- Lockheed Martin Corp. 1.10%
- Parker-Hannifin Corp. 1.07%
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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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