ETF comparison
QQQ vs SPHB
US Large Cap Growth vs US Large Cap.
Holdings overlap
30 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SPHB would leave roughly 22.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
QQQ is 7 bps cheaper than SPHB. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for SPHB.
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 QQQ vs SPHB.
Top shared holdings
30 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SPHB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 2.15% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 2 | Tesla, Inc. | 3.80% | 1.34% | 1.34% |
| 3 | Palantir Technologies Inc. | 1.90% | 1.32% | 1.32% |
| 4 | Lam Research Corp. | 1.51% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
| 5 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 1.88% | 1.22% | 1.22% |
| 6 | Applied Materials, Inc. | 1.53% | 1.16% | 1.16% |
| 7 | KLA Corp. | 1.09% | 1.17% | 1.09% |
| 8 | Broadcom Inc. | 3.01% | 1.06% | 1.06% |
| 9 | NVIDIA Corp. | 8.68% | 1.06% | 1.06% |
| 10 | Intel Corp. | 1.25% | 0.91% | 0.91% |
| 11 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 4.58% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 12 | Meta Platforms, Inc. | 3.46% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
Only in QQQ
71 total- Microsoft Corp. 5.63%
- Walmart Inc. 3.43%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.43%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.20%
- Costco Wholesale Corp. 2.50%
- Netflix, Inc. 2.30%
- Cisco Systems, Inc. 1.73%
- T-Mobile US, Inc. 1.31%
- Linde PLC 1.30%
- PepsiCo, Inc. 1.20%
Only in SPHB
71 total- Robinhood Markets, Inc. 1.61%
- Coinbase Global, Inc. 1.57%
- Carvana Co. 1.43%
- Dell Technologies Inc. 1.38%
- Vistra Corp. 1.33%
- Super Micro Computer, Inc. 1.30%
- United Airlines Holdings, Inc. 1.27%
- Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. 1.24%
- Block, Inc. 1.23%
- NRG Energy, Inc. 1.20%
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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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