ETF comparison
QQQ vs VOO
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
87 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and VOO would leave roughly 50.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VOO 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 VOO.
Top shared holdings
87 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In VOO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 8.68% | 7.58% | 7.58% |
| 2 | Apple Inc. | 7.63% | 6.66% | 6.66% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 5.63% | 4.91% | 4.91% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.58% | 3.64% | 3.64% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.43% | 2.99% | 2.99% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc. | 3.01% | 2.62% | 2.62% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.20% | 2.40% | 2.40% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 3.46% | 2.24% | 2.24% |
| 9 | Tesla, Inc. | 3.80% | 1.87% | 1.87% |
| 10 | Walmart Inc. | 3.43% | 0.97% | 0.97% |
| 11 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 2.50% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 12 | Netflix, Inc. | 2.30% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
Only in QQQ
14 total- Shopify Inc. 0.82%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.66%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.50%
- Marvell Technology, Inc. 0.49%
- PDD Holdings Inc. 0.39%
- FERROVIAL SE 0.26%
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 0.25%
- Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC 0.23%
- Thomson Reuters Corp. 0.23%
- Strategy Inc. 0.22%
Only in VOO
416 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.57%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.34%
- Eli Lilly & Co 1.30%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.27%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.05%
- Visa Inc 0.89%
- Mastercard Inc 0.73%
- Chevron Corp 0.69%
- AbbVie Inc 0.69%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 0.60%
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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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