ETF comparison
QQQ vs XLG
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
25 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and XLG would leave roughly 51.6% 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
QQQ is 2 bps cheaper than XLG. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for XLG.
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 XLG.
Top shared holdings
25 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In XLG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 7.60% | 12.06% | 7.60% |
| 2 | Apple Inc. | 6.67% | 11.26% | 6.67% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 4.35% | 8.56% | 4.35% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.02% | 6.60% | 4.02% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.27% | 5.18% | 3.27% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.02% | 4.18% | 3.02% |
| 7 | Broadcom Inc. | 2.81% | 4.57% | 2.81% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 2.62% | 3.03% | 2.62% |
| 9 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 5.64% | 2.30% | 2.30% |
| 10 | Tesla, Inc. | 3.30% | 2.17% | 2.17% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 4.10% | 1.93% | 1.93% |
| 12 | Walmart Inc. | 2.39% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
Only in QQQ
77 total- Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 1.21%
- Marvell Technology, Inc. 1.13%
- Western Digital Corp. 0.95%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.94%
- Amgen Inc. 0.85%
- CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. 0.84%
- Analog Devices, Inc. 0.84%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- T-Mobile US, Inc. 0.79%
- AppLovin Corp. 0.68%
Only in XLG
27 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.34%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2.33%
- Eli Lilly and Co. 2.25%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 1.60%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.53%
- Visa Inc. 1.51%
- Mastercard Inc. 1.15%
- AbbVie Inc. 1.10%
- Bank of America Corp. 1.00%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc. 0.93%
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- QQQ vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 49.7%
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- XLG vs CGUS · Capital Group Core Equity ETF 48.9%
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- XLG vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 40.8%
- XLG vs FNDX · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company ETF 38.5%
- XLG vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 38.3%
- XLG vs DIA · State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust 35.1%
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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