ETF comparison
QQQ vs SPLV
US Large Cap Growth vs Low Volatility Factor.
Holdings overlap
9 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of QQQ and SPLV would leave roughly 4.6% 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
QQQ is 7 bps cheaper than SPLV. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for SPLV.
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 SPLV.
Top shared holdings
9 shared in total| # | Holding | In QQQ | In SPLV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linde PLC | 1.04% | 1.10% | 1.04% |
| 2 | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 1.80% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 3 | PepsiCo, Inc. | 0.80% | 0.95% | 0.80% |
| 4 | CSX Corp. | 0.38% | 0.89% | 0.38% |
| 5 | American Electric Power Co., Inc. | 0.32% | 1.06% | 0.32% |
| 6 | Mondelez International, Inc. | 0.32% | 0.87% | 0.32% |
| 7 | Cintas Corp. | 0.29% | 0.87% | 0.29% |
| 8 | Xcel Energy Inc. | 0.22% | 1.01% | 0.22% |
| 9 | Exelon Corp. | 0.21% | 1.02% | 0.21% |
Only in QQQ
93 total- NVIDIA Corp. 7.60%
- Apple Inc. 6.67%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 5.64%
- Microsoft Corp. 4.35%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 4.10%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 4.02%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.27%
- Intel Corp. 3.04%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.02%
Only in SPLV
92 total- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 1.36%
- WEC Energy Group Inc. 1.26%
- Duke Energy Corp. 1.26%
- Regency Centers Corp. 1.25%
- FirstEnergy Corp. 1.25%
- Atmos Energy Corp. 1.24%
- Evergy, Inc. 1.24%
- Alliant Energy Corp. 1.22%
- Realty Income Corp. 1.20%
- CenterPoint Energy, Inc. 1.20%
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- SPLV vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 0.0%
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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