IEFAvsQQQ

iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF or Invesco QQQ, side by side from their own SEC filings. They hold no stocks in common. IEFA costs 0.07% a year against 0.18% for QQQ, $11 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months IEFA returned +24.8% and QQQ +34.0% in price.

0.4%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
IEFA0.4% in stocks the other holds too
QQQ0.7% 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.

IEFAQQQYearly cost0.07%0.18%Net assets$190.1B$490.1BPositions2,632105Last 12 months+24.8%+34.0% (price)3 years, a year+16.1%n/a5 years, a year+8.9%n/aLargest holdingASML 2.5%NVDA 7.6%Main sectorn/aTechnology 60%Holdings as ofJul 31, 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.

IEFA$114QQQ$123
October 2025June 2026

What they both hold

3 stocks are in both funds: 0.4% of IEFA and 0.7% of QQQ. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin IEFAin QQQ
NBIS0.1%0.3%FER0.1%0.2%CCEP0.1%0.2%

Only in IEFA

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. AZNAstraZeneca PLC1.0%
  2. SHELShell plc1.0%
  3. BHPBHP Group Limited0.8%
  4. TTETotalEnergies SE0.7%
  5. UBSUBS Group AG0.7%
  6. BBVABanco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.0.6%

Only in QQQ

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. NVDANVIDIA Corporation7.6%
  2. AAPLApple Inc.6.7%
  3. MUMicron Technology5.6%
  4. MSFTMicrosoft Corporation4.3%
  5. AMDAdvanced Micro Devices4.1%
  6. AMZNAmazon4.0%

More comparisons

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (IEFA: July 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.