ETF comparison
QQQ vs VOT
US Large Cap Growth vs US Mid Cap.
Holdings overlap
27 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and VOT would leave roughly 8.1% 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
VOT 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 VOT.
Top shared holdings
27 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In VOT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Western Digital Corp. | 0.95% | 2.42% | 0.95% |
| 2 | Seagate Technology Holdings PLC | 0.94% | 2.38% | 0.94% |
| 3 | Fortinet, Inc. | 0.49% | 1.05% | 0.49% |
| 4 | Constellation Energy Corp. | 0.39% | 1.77% | 0.39% |
| 5 | Datadog, Inc. | 0.37% | 1.90% | 0.37% |
| 6 | Astera Labs, Inc. | 0.36% | 0.82% | 0.36% |
| 7 | DoorDash, Inc. | 0.33% | 1.50% | 0.33% |
| 8 | Teradyne, Inc. | 0.33% | 1.67% | 0.33% |
| 9 | Ross Stores, Inc. | 0.30% | 1.51% | 0.30% |
| 10 | Cintas Corp. | 0.29% | 0.64% | 0.29% |
| 11 | Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. | 0.29% | 1.42% | 0.29% |
| 12 | Lumentum Holdings Inc. | 0.29% | 1.47% | 0.29% |
Only in QQQ
75 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 VOT
95 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 2.83%
- Quanta Services Inc 2.38%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 2.37%
- Bloom Energy Corp 1.80%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 1.75%
- Cloudflare Inc 1.72%
- Coherent Corp 1.70%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 1.69%
- TransDigm Group Inc 1.64%
- Comfort Systems USA Inc 1.53%
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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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