ETF comparison
QQQ vs SPYD
US Large Cap Growth vs Dividend.
Invesco QQQ Trust · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SPYD would leave roughly 1.5% 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
SPYD is 11 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/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 SPYD.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SPYD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PepsiCo, Inc. | 0.80% | 1.10% | 0.80% |
| 2 | Comcast Corp. | 0.38% | 1.01% | 0.38% |
| 3 | Exelon Corp. | 0.21% | 1.24% | 0.21% |
| 4 | Kraft Heinz Co. (The) | 0.12% | 1.26% | 0.12% |
Only in QQQ
98 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 SPYD
74 total- Iron Mountain Inc 1.61%
- Franklin Resources Inc 1.56%
- CVS Health Corp 1.52%
- Host Hotels & Resorts Inc 1.52%
- Edison International 1.47%
- Target Corp 1.47%
- APA Corp 1.47%
- Viatris Inc 1.45%
- Kimco Realty Corp 1.45%
- Simon Property Group Inc 1.44%
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- SPYD vs DEM · WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund 0.0%
- SPYD vs DGS · WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend Fund 0.0%
- SPYD vs DVYE · iShares Emerging Markets Dividend ETF 0.0%
- SPYD vs IDV · iShares International Select Dividend 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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.