ETF comparison
AVUS vs QQQ
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
90 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and QQQ would leave roughly 41.8% 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
AVUS is 3 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/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 AVUS vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
90 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.60% | 7.60% | 5.60% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 5.38% | 6.67% | 5.38% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 4.36% | 4.35% | 4.35% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.47% | 4.02% | 3.47% |
| 5 | Micron Technology Inc | 2.27% | 5.64% | 2.27% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc | 2.01% | 3.27% | 2.01% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.98% | 2.62% | 1.98% |
| 8 | Alphabet Inc | 1.62% | 3.02% | 1.62% |
| 9 | Broadcom Inc | 1.02% | 2.81% | 1.02% |
| 10 | Lam Research Corp | 0.83% | 2.35% | 0.83% |
| 11 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 0.70% | 1.80% | 0.70% |
| 12 | Tesla Inc | 0.66% | 3.30% | 0.66% |
Only in AVUS
1,808 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.41%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 1.19%
- Eli Lilly & Co 1.02%
- Visa Inc 0.77%
- Caterpillar Inc 0.72%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 0.66%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.66%
- Merck & Co Inc 0.65%
- Chevron Corp 0.61%
- Mastercard Inc 0.56%
Only in QQQ
12 total- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Shopify Inc. 0.60%
- Nebius Group N.V. 0.26%
- Electronic Arts Inc. 0.22%
- PDD Holdings Inc. 0.22%
- Microchip Technology Inc. 0.21%
- FERROVIAL NV 0.21%
- Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC 0.19%
- Roper Technologies, Inc. 0.15%
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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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