GRIDvsQYLD

First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund or Global X NASDAQ 100 Covered Call ETF, 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. GRID costs 0.56% a year against 0.60% for QYLD, $4 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months GRID returned +39.0% and QYLD +19.5%.

8.4%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
GRID8.4% in stocks the other holds too
QYLD16% 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.

GRIDQYLDYearly cost0.56%0.60%Net assets$12.1B$8.1BPositions123104Last 12 months+39.0%+19.5%3 years, a year+23.4%+12.3%5 years, a year+16.9%+7.8%Largest holdingETN 8.5%NVDA 8.2%Main sectorn/aTechnology 57%Holdings as ofJun 30, 2026Jul 31, 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 August 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

GRID$423QYLD$175
August 2019June 2026

What they both hold

8 stocks are in both funds: 8.4% of GRID and 16% of QYLD. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin GRIDin QYLD
TSLA1.9%2.6%NVDA1.9%8.2%CSCO1.7%2.1%TXN1.0%1.2%ADI0.7%0.8%QCOM0.7%0.7%HON0.3%0.4%NXPI0.2%0.3%

Only in GRID

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. ETNEaton Corporation8.5%
  2. PWRQuanta Services8.1%
  3. JCIJohnson Controls8.0%
  4. NVTnVent Electric plc2.9%
  5. HUBBHubbell Incorporated2.6%
  6. APTVAptiv1.3%

Only in QYLD

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. AAPLApple Inc.7.7%
  2. MSFTMicrosoft Corporation5.8%
  3. AMZNAmazon4.9%
  4. MUMicron Technology4.3%
  5. AMDAdvanced Micro Devices3.6%
  6. GOOGLAlphabet Inc.3.5%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (GRID: June 2026, QYLD: July 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.