ETF comparison
MOAT vs QQQ
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
18 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MOAT and QQQ would leave roughly 14.4% 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
QQQ is 28 bps cheaper than MOAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for MOAT.
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 MOAT vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
18 shared in total| # | Holding | In MOAT | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 2.50% | 8.68% | 2.50% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 2.22% | 5.63% | 2.22% |
| 3 | Applied Materials Inc | 1.35% | 1.53% | 1.35% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 1.31% | 4.58% | 1.31% |
| 5 | Broadcom Inc | 1.20% | 3.01% | 1.20% |
| 6 | PepsiCo Inc | 1.41% | 1.20% | 1.20% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.14% | 3.46% | 1.14% |
| 8 | Palo Alto Networks Inc | 1.30% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 9 | Adobe Inc | 0.96% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
| 10 | Mondelez International Inc | 2.74% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 11 | Fortinet Inc | 2.61% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 12 | Airbnb Inc | 2.64% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
Only in MOAT
40 total- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 2.90%
- Constellation Brands Inc 2.74%
- Kenvue Inc 2.67%
- Zoetis Inc 2.62%
- Brown-Forman Corp 2.62%
- Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc 2.62%
- Clorox Co/The 2.61%
- Masco Corp 2.54%
- Otis Worldwide Corp 2.40%
- Danaher Corp 2.39%
Only in QQQ
83 total- Apple Inc. 7.63%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.80%
- Walmart Inc. 3.43%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.43%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.20%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 2.50%
- Netflix, Inc. 2.30%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 2.15%
- Palantir Technologies Inc. 1.90%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 1.88%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.