GRIDvsQQQ

First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund or Invesco QQQ, side by side from their own SEC filings. 8.4% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 8 stocks in both. QQQ costs 0.18% a year against 0.56% for GRID, $38 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months GRID returned +39.0% and QQQ +34.0% in price.

8.4%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
GRID8.4% in stocks the other holds too
QQQ16% in stocks the other holds too
stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

GRIDQQQYearly cost0.56%0.18%Net assets$12.1B$490.1BPositions123105Last 12 months+39.0%+34.0% (price)3 years, a year+23.4%n/a5 years, a year+16.9%n/aLargest holdingETN 8.5%NVDA 7.6%Main sectorn/aTechnology 60%Holdings as ofJun 30, 2026Jun 30, 2026

Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.

Growth of $100

Both funds from October 2025, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

GRID$128QQQ$123
October 2025June 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (GRID: June 2026, QQQ: June 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.