ETF comparison
QQQ vs VUG
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
56 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and VUG would leave roughly 59.2% 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
VUG 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
56 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.60% | 12.63% | 7.60% |
| 2 | Apple Inc. | 6.67% | 11.67% | 6.67% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 4.35% | 7.61% | 4.35% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.02% | 4.47% | 4.02% |
| 5 | Tesla, Inc. | 3.30% | 3.27% | 3.27% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.27% | 5.76% | 3.27% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.02% | 4.53% | 3.02% |
| 8 | Broadcom Inc. | 2.81% | 4.28% | 2.81% |
| 9 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 2.62% | 3.41% | 2.62% |
| 10 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 4.10% | 2.62% | 2.62% |
| 11 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 2.49% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 12 | Lam Research Corp. | 2.35% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
Only in QQQ
46 total- Micron Technology, Inc. 5.64%
- Walmart Inc. 2.39%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 2.01%
- Linde PLC 1.04%
- Amgen Inc. 0.85%
- QUALCOMM Inc. 0.84%
- Analog Devices, Inc. 0.84%
- PepsiCo, Inc. 0.80%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- T-Mobile US, Inc. 0.79%
Only in VUG
90 total- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
- Visa Inc 1.54%
- Mastercard Inc 1.13%
- GE Vernova Inc 0.89%
- Oracle Corp 0.71%
- Amphenol Corp 0.61%
- General Electric Co 0.55%
- McDonald's Corp 0.54%
- Arista Networks Inc 0.52%
- Boeing Co/The 0.48%
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- QQQ vs SPYG · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Growth ETF 55.4%
- QQQ vs IVW · iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF 55.4%
- QQQ vs VV · Vanguard Morningstar Large-Cap ETF 54.9%
- QQQ vs MGC · Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF 54.7%
More comparisons with VUG
- VUG vs SPY · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 59.0%
- VUG vs BBUS · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Equity ETF 57.5%
- VUG vs VOO · Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 57.5%
- VUG vs SPYM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF 57.4%
- VUG vs IVV · iShares Core S&P 500 ETF 57.4%
- VUG vs SCHX · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF 56.8%
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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