ETF comparison
QQQ vs SPY
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
87 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SPY would leave roughly 53.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SPY is 9 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $86/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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
87 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.60% | 8.50% | 7.60% |
| 2 | Apple Inc. | 6.67% | 7.32% | 6.67% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 4.35% | 5.77% | 4.35% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.02% | 3.71% | 3.71% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.27% | 3.03% | 3.03% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc. | 2.81% | 2.54% | 2.54% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.02% | 2.43% | 2.43% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 2.62% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 9 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 5.64% | 1.82% | 1.82% |
| 10 | Tesla, Inc. | 3.30% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 4.10% | 1.55% | 1.55% |
| 12 | Intel Corp. | 3.04% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
Only in QQQ
15 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%
- Electronic Arts Inc. 0.22%
- PDD Holdings Inc. 0.22%
- FERROVIAL NV 0.21%
Only in SPY
418 total- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.41%
- ELI LILLY + CO 1.37%
- JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 1.33%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.01%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 0.93%
- VISA INC CLASS A SHARES 0.92%
- ABBVIE INC 0.70%
- MASTERCARD INC A 0.67%
- CHEVRON CORP 0.61%
- CATERPILLAR INC 0.58%
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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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