ETF comparison
QQQ vs VO
US Large Cap Growth vs US Mid Cap.
Holdings overlap
41 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and VO would leave roughly 10.9% 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
VO is 15 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/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 VO.
Top shared holdings
41 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Western Digital Corp. | 0.95% | 1.06% | 0.95% |
| 2 | Seagate Technology Holdings PLC | 0.94% | 1.05% | 0.94% |
| 3 | Fortinet, Inc. | 0.49% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 4 | Constellation Energy Corp. | 0.39% | 0.78% | 0.39% |
| 5 | Datadog, Inc. | 0.37% | 0.83% | 0.37% |
| 6 | Astera Labs, Inc. | 0.36% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 7 | DoorDash, Inc. | 0.33% | 0.66% | 0.33% |
| 8 | Teradyne, Inc. | 0.33% | 0.73% | 0.33% |
| 9 | American Electric Power Co., Inc. | 0.32% | 0.36% | 0.32% |
| 10 | Ross Stores, Inc. | 0.30% | 0.66% | 0.30% |
| 11 | Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. | 0.29% | 0.62% | 0.29% |
| 12 | Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. | 0.29% | 0.61% | 0.29% |
Only in QQQ
61 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 VO
241 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
- Cummins Inc 0.95%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.76%
- Valero Energy Corp 0.75%
- Coherent Corp 0.75%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 0.74%
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- VO vs FBCG · Fidelity Blue Chip Growth ETF 10.8%
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- VO vs QQQM · Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF 10.2%
- VO vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 10.2%
- VO vs CGGR · Capital Group Growth ETF 10.1%
- VO vs DGRW · WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Fund 9.8%
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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