ETF comparison
QQQ vs SPYM
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
88 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SPYM would leave roughly 54.5% 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
SPYM is 16 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/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 SPYM.
Top shared holdings
88 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SPYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.60% | 7.51% | 7.51% |
| 2 | Apple Inc. | 6.67% | 6.59% | 6.59% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 4.35% | 4.29% | 4.29% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.02% | 3.62% | 3.62% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.27% | 3.25% | 3.25% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc. | 2.81% | 2.77% | 2.77% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.02% | 2.59% | 2.59% |
| 8 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 5.64% | 2.02% | 2.02% |
| 9 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 2.62% | 1.92% | 1.92% |
| 10 | Tesla, Inc. | 3.30% | 1.83% | 1.83% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 4.10% | 1.47% | 1.47% |
| 12 | Intel Corp. | 3.04% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
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 SPYM
418 total- Eli Lilly & Co 1.47%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.42%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.36%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.95%
- Visa Inc 0.88%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.88%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.76%
- AbbVie Inc 0.69%
- Mastercard Inc 0.64%
- General Electric Co 0.60%
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- SPYM vs FELG · Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Growth ETF 52.4%
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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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