ETF comparison
MGC vs QQQ
US Large Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
57 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGC and QQQ would leave roughly 53.9% 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
MGC is 13 bps cheaper than QQQ. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/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 MGC vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
57 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGC | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 9.34% | 7.60% | 7.60% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 8.56% | 6.67% | 6.67% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 6.93% | 4.35% | 4.35% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.63% | 4.02% | 4.02% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 3.67% | 3.27% | 3.27% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc | 2.88% | 3.02% | 2.88% |
| 7 | Broadcom Inc | 3.23% | 2.81% | 2.81% |
| 8 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.31% | 2.62% | 2.31% |
| 9 | Micron Technology Inc | 1.99% | 5.64% | 1.99% |
| 10 | Tesla Inc | 1.91% | 3.30% | 1.91% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.41% | 4.10% | 1.41% |
| 12 | Walmart Inc | 0.85% | 2.39% | 0.85% |
Only in MGC
115 total- Eli Lilly & Co 1.80%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.76%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 1.61%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 1.23%
- Johnson & Johnson 1.18%
- Visa Inc 1.16%
- Mastercard Inc 0.86%
- AbbVie Inc 0.83%
- Bank of America Corp 0.73%
- Chevron Corp 0.72%
Only in QQQ
45 total- ASML Holding N.V. 0.79%
- ARM Holdings PLC 0.65%
- Shopify Inc. 0.60%
- Constellation Energy Corp. 0.39%
- Datadog, Inc. 0.37%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.37%
- Astera Labs, Inc. 0.36%
- DoorDash, Inc. 0.33%
- Teradyne, Inc. 0.33%
- NXP Semiconductors N.V. 0.31%
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- QQQ vs IUSG · iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF 53.7%
- QQQ vs VOOG · Vanguard S&P 500 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 53.1%
- QQQ vs FELG · Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Growth ETF 52.6%
- QQQ vs ESGV · Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF 52.6%
- QQQ vs BBUS · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Equity ETF 52.0%
- QQQ vs XLG · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF 51.6%
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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