QQQvsVO

Invesco QQQ or Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 10% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 39 stocks in both. VO costs 0.03% a year against 0.18% for QQQ, $15 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months QQQ returned +34.0% in price and VO +16.8%.

10%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
QQQ10% in stocks the other holds too
VO18% 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.

QQQVOYearly cost0.18%0.03%Net assets$490.1B$224.1BPositions105295Last 12 months+34.0% (price)+16.8%3 years, a yearn/a+15.3%5 years, a yearn/a+7.9%Largest holdingNVDA 7.6%VRT 1.2%Main sectorTechnology 60%Industrials 20%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.

QQQ$123VO$111
October 2025June 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (QQQ: June 2026, VO: 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.