ETF comparison
DIA vs QQQ
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust · Invesco QQQ Trust
Holdings overlap
9 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DIA and QQQ would leave roughly 20.4% 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
DIA is 2 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/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 DIA vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
9 shared in total| # | Holding | In DIA | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORP | 6.19% | 4.35% | 4.35% |
| 2 | APPLE INC | 3.89% | 6.67% | 3.89% |
| 3 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 3.22% | 3.27% | 3.22% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 2.96% | 4.02% | 2.96% |
| 5 | NVIDIA CORP | 2.23% | 7.60% | 2.23% |
| 6 | WALMART INC | 1.44% | 2.39% | 1.44% |
| 7 | CISCO SYSTEMS INC | 1.15% | 2.01% | 1.15% |
| 8 | AMGEN INC | 5.33% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 9 | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC | 2.54% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
Only in DIA
21 total- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 10.33%
- CATERPILLAR INC 6.58%
- VISA INC CLASS A SHARES 4.86%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC 4.56%
- TRAVELERS COS INC/THE 4.56%
- SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO/THE 4.05%
- HOME DEPOT INC 3.96%
- JPMORGAN CHASE + CO 3.92%
- AMERICAN EXPRESS CO 3.70%
- MCDONALD S CORP 3.12%
Only in QQQ
93 total- Micron Technology, Inc. 5.64%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 4.10%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Intel Corp. 3.04%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.02%
- Broadcom Inc. 2.81%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 2.62%
- Applied Materials, Inc. 2.49%
- Lam Research Corp. 2.35%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 1.80%
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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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