ETF comparison
QQQ vs SPTM
US Large Cap Growth vs US Total Market.
Invesco QQQ Trust · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
88 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SPTM would leave roughly 50.2% 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
SPTM is 15 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/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 SPTM.
Top shared holdings
88 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SPTM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.60% | 6.92% | 6.92% |
| 2 | Apple Inc. | 6.67% | 6.07% | 6.07% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 4.35% | 3.96% | 3.96% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.02% | 3.33% | 3.33% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.27% | 2.99% | 2.99% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc. | 2.81% | 2.56% | 2.56% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.02% | 2.38% | 2.38% |
| 8 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 5.64% | 1.86% | 1.86% |
| 9 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 2.62% | 1.76% | 1.76% |
| 10 | Tesla, Inc. | 3.30% | 1.69% | 1.69% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 4.10% | 1.35% | 1.35% |
| 12 | Intel Corp. | 3.04% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
Only in QQQ
14 total- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Shopify Inc. 0.60%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.37%
- Astera Labs, Inc. 0.36%
- Nebius Group N.V. 0.26%
- Rocket Lab Corp. 0.25%
- PDD Holdings Inc. 0.22%
- FERROVIAL NV 0.21%
- Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC 0.19%
Only in SPTM
1,420 total- Eli Lilly & Co 1.35%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.31%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.25%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.88%
- Visa Inc 0.82%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.81%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.70%
- AbbVie Inc 0.64%
- Mastercard Inc 0.59%
- General Electric Co 0.55%
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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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