ETF comparison
QQQ vs VIG
US Large Cap Growth vs Dividend.
Invesco QQQ Trust · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
28 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and VIG would leave roughly 29.8% 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
VIG is 14 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
28 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc. | 6.67% | 4.45% | 4.45% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp. | 4.35% | 4.34% | 4.34% |
| 3 | Broadcom Inc. | 2.81% | 4.63% | 2.81% |
| 4 | Walmart Inc. | 2.39% | 2.11% | 2.11% |
| 5 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 2.01% | 1.98% | 1.98% |
| 6 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 1.80% | 1.83% | 1.80% |
| 7 | Lam Research Corp. | 2.35% | 1.58% | 1.58% |
| 8 | Texas Instruments Inc. | 1.17% | 1.08% | 1.08% |
| 9 | KLA Corp. | 1.71% | 1.03% | 1.03% |
| 10 | Linde PLC | 1.04% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 11 | Amgen Inc. | 0.85% | 0.90% | 0.85% |
| 12 | PepsiCo, Inc. | 0.80% | 0.82% | 0.80% |
Only in QQQ
74 total- NVIDIA Corp. 7.60%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 5.64%
- 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%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 2.62%
- Applied Materials, Inc. 2.49%
Only in VIG
305 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.93%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.78%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.67%
- Visa Inc 2.45%
- Mastercard Inc 2.00%
- AbbVie Inc 1.92%
- Bank of America Corp 1.75%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.63%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.62%
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- VIG vs MTUM · iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF 28.0%
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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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