ETF comparison
QQQ vs VYM
US Large Cap Growth vs Dividend.
Invesco QQQ Trust · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
28 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and VYM would leave roughly 15.0% 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
VYM is 14 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
28 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc. | 2.81% | 7.35% | 2.81% |
| 2 | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 2.01% | 1.86% | 1.86% |
| 3 | Texas Instruments Inc. | 1.17% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
| 4 | Linde PLC | 1.04% | 0.90% | 0.90% |
| 5 | Amgen Inc. | 0.85% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 6 | PepsiCo, Inc. | 0.80% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 7 | Analog Devices, Inc. | 0.84% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 8 | Gilead Sciences, Inc. | 0.68% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 9 | QUALCOMM Inc. | 0.84% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 10 | Starbucks Corp. | 0.50% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 11 | Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | 0.39% | 0.43% | 0.39% |
| 12 | Comcast Corp. | 0.38% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
Only in QQQ
74 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 VYM
576 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- AbbVie Inc 1.80%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 1.38%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 1.37%
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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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