ETF comparison
QQQ vs USMV
US Large Cap Growth vs Low Volatility Factor.
Holdings overlap
53 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and USMV would leave roughly 24.0% 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
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Cost difference
USMV is 3 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/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 USMV.
Top shared holdings
53 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In USMV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp. | 4.35% | 1.62% | 1.62% |
| 2 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 2.01% | 1.46% | 1.46% |
| 3 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.60% | 1.32% | 1.32% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc. | 2.81% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
| 5 | Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | 1.21% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 6 | Apple Inc. | 6.67% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 7 | Palantir Technologies Inc. | 1.16% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 8 | PepsiCo, Inc. | 0.80% | 0.86% | 0.80% |
| 9 | T-Mobile US, Inc. | 0.79% | 0.99% | 0.79% |
| 10 | Texas Instruments Inc. | 1.17% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 11 | Walmart Inc. | 2.39% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 12 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 4.10% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
Only in QQQ
49 total- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.27%
- Intel Corp. 3.04%
- Lam Research Corp. 2.35%
- KLA Corp. 1.71%
- Sandisk Corp. 1.46%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Intuitive Surgical, Inc. 0.61%
- Shopify Inc. 0.60%
Only in USMV
112 total- AMPHENOL CORPORATION 1.58%
- WELLTOWER INC. 1.57%
- Chubb Limited 1.54%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 1.54%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.47%
- DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION 1.45%
- THE SOUTHERN COMPANY 1.44%
- VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. 1.40%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 1.39%
- MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC. 1.39%
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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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