ETF comparison
QQQM vs SPY
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
87 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQM and SPY would leave roughly 54.9% 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
SPY is 6 bps cheaper than QQQM. On a $100,000 position that's about $56/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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
87 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQM | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp. | 8.13% | 8.50% | 8.13% |
| 2 | Apple Inc. | 7.26% | 7.32% | 7.26% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp. | 5.30% | 5.77% | 5.30% |
| 4 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.60% | 3.71% | 3.71% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.51% | 3.03% | 3.03% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc. | 3.36% | 2.54% | 2.54% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc. | 3.24% | 2.43% | 2.43% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 2.96% | 2.41% | 2.41% |
| 9 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 4.78% | 1.82% | 1.82% |
| 10 | Tesla, Inc. | 3.45% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 3.68% | 1.55% | 1.55% |
| 12 | Intel Corp. | 2.51% | 0.89% | 0.89% |
Only in QQQM
15 total- Honeywell International Inc. 0.66%
- Shopify Inc. 0.64%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.62%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.38%
- PDD Holdings Inc. 0.25%
- Electronic Arts Inc. 0.22%
- Strategy Inc. 0.22%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.22%
- Ferrovial N.V. 0.21%
- Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC 0.18%
Only in SPY
418 total- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC CL B 1.41%
- ELI LILLY + CO 1.37%
- JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 1.33%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.01%
- JOHNSON + JOHNSON 0.93%
- VISA INC CLASS A SHARES 0.92%
- ABBVIE INC 0.70%
- MASTERCARD INC A 0.67%
- CHEVRON CORP 0.61%
- CATERPILLAR INC 0.58%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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