ETF comparison
QQQ vs VBR
US Large Cap Growth vs US Small Cap.
Invesco QQQ Trust · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and VBR would leave roughly 0.0% 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
VBR 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 VBR.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in QQQ
102 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 VBR
840 total- Jabil Inc 0.87%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.66%
- Tapestry Inc 0.63%
- Atmos Energy Corp 0.62%
- Williams-Sonoma Inc 0.59%
- Moderna Inc 0.54%
- Smurfit Westrock PLC 0.52%
- F5 Inc 0.50%
- US Foods Holding Corp 0.48%
- JB Hunt Transport Services Inc 0.47%
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- QQQ vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- QQQ vs VYMI · Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
More comparisons with VBR
- VBR vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 59.0%
- VBR vs DFAS · U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 49.5%
- VBR vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 43.2%
- VBR vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 41.3%
- VBR vs SCHA · Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 40.0%
- VBR vs DFSV · DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 30.2%
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.