ETF comparison
ACWV vs QQQ
Low Volatility Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
42 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ACWV and QQQ would leave roughly 13.5% 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 ACWV. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for ACWV.
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 ACWV vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
42 shared in total| # | Holding | In ACWV | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 1.37% | 2.01% | 1.37% |
| 2 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 1.30% | 4.35% | 1.30% |
| 3 | PEPSICO, INC. | 0.83% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
| 4 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 0.72% | 7.60% | 0.72% |
| 5 | T-MOBILE US, INC. | 0.72% | 0.79% | 0.72% |
| 6 | GILEAD SCIENCES, INC. | 0.56% | 0.68% | 0.56% |
| 7 | VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED | 0.57% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 8 | WALMART INC. | 0.53% | 2.39% | 0.53% |
| 9 | PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 0.45% | 1.16% | 0.45% |
| 10 | PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC. | 0.45% | 1.21% | 0.45% |
| 11 | COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION | 0.42% | 1.80% | 0.42% |
| 12 | MONSTER BEVERAGE CORPORATION | 0.62% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
Only in ACWV
338 total- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 1.60%
- MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC. 1.33%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 1.20%
- CENCORA, INC. 1.16%
- DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION 1.13%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.05%
- KDDI CORPORATION 1.04%
- THE SOUTHERN COMPANY 0.99%
- WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC. 0.96%
- Chubb Limited 0.94%
Only in QQQ
60 total- Amazon.com, Inc. 4.02%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.27%
- Intel Corp. 3.04%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 2.62%
- Lam Research Corp. 2.35%
- KLA Corp. 1.71%
- Sandisk Corp. 1.46%
- Western Digital Corp. 0.95%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.94%
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- ACWV vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 13.0%
- ACWV vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 11.4%
- ACWV vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 10.7%
- ACWV vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 6.3%
- ACWV vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 3.2%
- ACWV vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 0.6%
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- QQQ vs VOT · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF 8.1%
- QQQ vs SDY · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF 6.7%
- QQQ vs FVD · First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund 6.6%
- QQQ vs COWZ · Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF 6.3%
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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