ETF comparison
QQQ vs VLUE
US Large Cap Growth vs Value Factor.
Holdings overlap
15 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and VLUE would leave roughly 11.3% 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
VLUE 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 VLUE.
Top shared holdings
15 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In VLUE | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 5.64% | 18.98% | 5.64% |
| 2 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 2.01% | 4.65% | 2.01% |
| 3 | QUALCOMM Inc. | 0.84% | 1.42% | 0.84% |
| 4 | CSX Corp. | 0.38% | 0.77% | 0.38% |
| 5 | Comcast Corp. | 0.38% | 1.78% | 0.38% |
| 6 | Adobe Inc. | 0.36% | 0.65% | 0.36% |
| 7 | NXP Semiconductors N.V. | 0.31% | 0.55% | 0.31% |
| 8 | PACCAR Inc. | 0.27% | 1.05% | 0.27% |
| 9 | Diamondback Energy, Inc. | 0.21% | 0.43% | 0.21% |
| 10 | Exelon Corp. | 0.21% | 0.32% | 0.21% |
| 11 | Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. | 0.19% | 0.28% | 0.19% |
| 12 | Roper Technologies, Inc. | 0.15% | 0.36% | 0.15% |
Only in QQQ
87 total- NVIDIA Corp. 7.60%
- Apple Inc. 6.67%
- 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%
- Broadcom Inc. 2.81%
Only in VLUE
136 total- GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY 3.99%
- VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. 2.97%
- AT&T INC. 2.55%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION 2.21%
- FORD MOTOR COMPANY 2.14%
- CITIGROUP INC. 1.62%
- PFIZER INC. 1.60%
- HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY 1.57%
- CVS HEALTH CORPORATION 1.54%
- THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY 1.53%
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- VLUE vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 8.7%
- VLUE vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 6.7%
- VLUE vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 4.7%
- VLUE vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 1.7%
- VLUE vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 0.7%
- VLUE vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 0.0%
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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