ETF comparison
QQQ vs SPLV
US Large Cap Growth vs Low Volatility Factor.
Holdings overlap
12 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SPLV would leave roughly 6.1% 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
QQQ is 7 bps cheaper than SPLV. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for SPLV.
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 SPLV.
Top shared holdings
12 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SPLV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linde PLC | 1.04% | 1.17% | 1.04% |
| 2 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 1.80% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
| 3 | PepsiCo, Inc. | 0.80% | 0.84% | 0.80% |
| 4 | Walmart Inc. | 2.39% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 5 | Monster Beverage Corp. | 0.41% | 0.98% | 0.41% |
| 6 | Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | 0.39% | 0.92% | 0.39% |
| 7 | O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. | 0.33% | 0.80% | 0.33% |
| 8 | American Electric Power Co., Inc. | 0.32% | 1.05% | 0.32% |
| 9 | Mondelez International, Inc. | 0.32% | 0.85% | 0.32% |
| 10 | Cintas Corp. | 0.29% | 1.05% | 0.29% |
| 11 | Xcel Energy Inc. | 0.22% | 0.99% | 0.22% |
| 12 | Exelon Corp. | 0.21% | 1.06% | 0.21% |
Only in QQQ
90 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 SPLV
89 total- FirstEnergy Corp. 1.34%
- Loews Corp. 1.29%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 1.28%
- Duke Energy Corp. 1.25%
- Ameren Corp. 1.24%
- WEC Energy Group Inc. 1.24%
- Alliant Energy Corp. 1.23%
- CenterPoint Energy, Inc. 1.23%
- DTE Energy Co. 1.22%
- Evergy, Inc. 1.22%
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- SPLV vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 5.8%
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- SPLV vs EEMV · iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Min Vol Factor ETF 0.0%
- SPLV vs EFAV · iShares MSCI EAFE Min Vol Factor ETF 0.0%
- SPLV vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 0.0%
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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