ETF comparison
MGV vs QQQ
US Value vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
25 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MGV and QQQ would leave roughly 22.4% 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
MGV 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 MGV vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
25 shared in total| # | Holding | In MGV | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Micron Technology Inc | 5.00% | 5.64% | 5.00% |
| 2 | Walmart Inc | 2.12% | 2.39% | 2.12% |
| 3 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.81% | 2.01% | 1.81% |
| 4 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 1.94% | 1.80% | 1.80% |
| 5 | Texas Instruments Inc | 1.10% | 1.17% | 1.10% |
| 6 | Linde PLC | 1.05% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
| 7 | Intel Corp | 0.87% | 3.04% | 0.87% |
| 8 | Amgen Inc | 1.07% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 9 | Applied Materials Inc | 0.84% | 2.49% | 0.84% |
| 10 | QUALCOMM Inc | 0.83% | 0.84% | 0.83% |
| 11 | Analog Devices Inc | 0.82% | 0.84% | 0.82% |
| 12 | PepsiCo Inc | 0.89% | 0.80% | 0.80% |
Only in MGV
96 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 4.41%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 3.29%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 3.08%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.96%
- AbbVie Inc 2.09%
- Bank of America Corp 1.83%
- Chevron Corp 1.80%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.70%
- Merck & Co Inc 1.69%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.63%
Only in QQQ
77 total- NVIDIA Corp. 7.60%
- Apple Inc. 6.67%
- Microsoft Corp. 4.35%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 4.10%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 4.02%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.27%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.02%
- Broadcom Inc. 2.81%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 2.62%
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- MGV vs RPV · Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value ETF 9.6%
- MGV vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 5.7%
- MGV vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 2.5%
- MGV vs VOE · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF 2.3%
More comparisons with QQQ
- QQQ vs JAVA · JPMorgan Active Value ETF 22.0%
- QQQ vs AVLV · Avantis US Large Cap Value ETF 21.9%
- QQQ vs RDVY · First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF 21.6%
- QQQ vs SCHV · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Value ETF 20.6%
- QQQ vs DIA · State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust 20.4%
- QQQ vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 20.2%
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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