ETF comparison
QQQ vs VBK
US Large Cap Growth vs US Small Cap.
Invesco QQQ Trust · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and VBK would leave roughly 0.4% 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
VBK is 13 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/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 VBK.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In VBK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astera Labs, Inc. | 0.36% | 1.05% | 0.36% |
Only in QQQ
101 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 VBK
542 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.27%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 1.06%
- Natera Inc 1.04%
- Twilio Inc 0.88%
- Casey's General Stores Inc 0.83%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.82%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.79%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.78%
- nVent Electric PLC 0.77%
- Entegris Inc 0.77%
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- QQQ vs IQLT · iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF 0.1%
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More comparisons with VBK
- VBK vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 0.1%
- VBK vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 46.3%
- VBK vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 45.2%
- VBK vs SCHA · Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 36.8%
- VBK vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 35.2%
- VBK vs DFAS · U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 29.6%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open QQQ or VBK at a brokerage
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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.