ETF comparison
QQQM vs SCHD
US Large Cap Growth vs Dividend.
Holdings overlap
8 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQM and SCHD would leave roughly 5.2% 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
SCHD is 9 bps cheaper than QQQM. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/yr more in fees for QQQM.
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 QQQM vs SCHD.
Top shared holdings
8 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQM | In SCHD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas Instruments Inc. | 1.21% | 5.90% | 1.21% |
| 2 | QUALCOMM Inc. | 1.17% | 6.74% | 1.17% |
| 3 | PepsiCo, Inc. | 0.86% | 3.44% | 0.86% |
| 4 | Amgen Inc. | 0.79% | 3.47% | 0.79% |
| 5 | Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | 0.39% | 2.25% | 0.39% |
| 6 | Comcast Corp. | 0.39% | 2.25% | 0.39% |
| 7 | Fastenal Co. | 0.22% | 1.28% | 0.22% |
| 8 | Paychex, Inc. | 0.15% | 0.79% | 0.15% |
Only in QQQM
94 total- NVIDIA Corp. 8.13%
- Apple Inc. 7.26%
- Microsoft Corp. 5.30%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 4.78%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 4.60%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 3.68%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.51%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.45%
- Broadcom Inc. 3.36%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.24%
Only in SCHD
91 total- UnitedHealth Group Inc 5.09%
- Coca-Cola Co/The 3.96%
- Merck & Co Inc 3.86%
- Chevron Corp 3.83%
- Verizon Communications Inc 3.65%
- Procter & Gamble Co/The 3.55%
- ConocoPhillips 3.51%
- Home Depot Inc/The 3.36%
- Abbott Laboratories 2.96%
- Altria Group Inc 2.94%
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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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