ETF comparison
MGK vs QQQ
Both US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
33 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGK and QQQ would leave roughly 59.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
MGK 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 MGK vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
33 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGK | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 13.75% | 8.68% | 8.68% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 12.60% | 7.63% | 7.63% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 9.01% | 5.63% | 5.63% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 4.59% | 4.58% | 4.58% |
| 5 | Tesla Inc | 4.18% | 3.80% | 3.80% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 4.17% | 3.46% | 3.46% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 5.51% | 3.43% | 3.43% |
| 8 | Alphabet Inc | 4.37% | 3.20% | 3.20% |
| 9 | Broadcom Inc | 4.40% | 3.01% | 3.01% |
| 10 | Netflix Inc | 1.76% | 2.30% | 1.76% |
| 11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 1.49% | 1.88% | 1.49% |
| 12 | Palantir Technologies Inc | 1.42% | 1.90% | 1.42% |
Only in MGK
26 total- Eli Lilly & Co 3.17%
- Visa Inc 1.97%
- Mastercard Inc 1.72%
- Oracle Corp 1.18%
- GE Vernova Inc 1.14%
- TJX Cos Inc/The 0.90%
- Amphenol Corp 0.80%
- Boeing Co/The 0.78%
- Uber Technologies Inc 0.77%
- Welltower Inc 0.74%
Only in QQQ
68 total- Walmart Inc. 3.43%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 2.50%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 2.15%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 1.73%
- Applied Materials, Inc. 1.53%
- Linde PLC 1.30%
- Intel Corp. 1.25%
- PepsiCo, Inc. 1.20%
- Amgen Inc. 1.07%
- Texas Instruments Inc. 1.00%
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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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