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Overlap · from SEC filings

QQQ vs VEA: what actually overlaps

QQQ and VEA: 0.57% of a dollar ends up in the same companies either way (SEC Form N-PORT, 2026-06-30), across 4 securities the two funds both hold. Every free comparison tool can list the tickers in common; this weights them, which is the part that decides whether owning both changes anything.

0.57%Overlap by weight
4Shared holdings
119.3Combined effective holdings
-149.6 vs VEA alone

The short version

Held alone, QQQ behaves like 34.1 equally weighted positions and VEA like 268.9. Held together in equal size they behave like 119.3 — less diversified than holding VEA on its own — but not because the two funds overlap, since they share only 4 securities, 0.57% of a dollar by weight. Effective holdings weights by money, and half of it now sits in QQQ, which behaves like 34.1 on its own. That is what pulls the blend down.

Overlap here is the sum, over securities both funds hold, of the smaller of the two weights: the share of a dollar that sits in the same company either way. Matching is on CUSIP. Figures are as of each fund's own reporting date (2026-06-30 and 2026-06-30), which do not always align.

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Side by side

as filed
QQQVEA
Assets$492B$317B
Holdings1033,171
Effective holdings34.1268.9
Top ten weight45.03%13.15%
Largest position7.6%2.37%
Priced at market (Level 1)99.65%11.9%
Reporting date2026-06-302026-06-30

Each fund on its own: QQQ · VEA

Where the overlap actually is

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The ten shared positions that account for the most of it, with what each fund holds of its own. Shared is the lesser of the two — the part that is held in common either way. Where the two columns diverge, one fund is making a larger bet on that company than the other, and holding both does not average it away.

CompanyQQQVEAShared
Shopify Inc. 0.604% 0.434% 0.434%
FERROVIAL NV 0.214% 0.096% 0.096%
Thomson Reuters Corp. 0.135% 0.034% 0.034%
N/A 0.002% 0.006% 0.002%

What the difference is made of

99.05% · 99.01%

99.05% of QQQ sits in companies VEA does not hold at all, and 99.01% of VEA in companies QQQ does not hold. The largest of each, by weight in its own fund:

Only in QQQ (99.05%)
  • NVIDIA Corp.
  • Apple Inc.
  • Micron Technology, Inc.
  • Microsoft Corp.
  • Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Only in VEA (99.01%)
  • SK hynix Inc
  • ASML Holding NV
  • Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
  • Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
  • HSBC Holdings PLC

By country of issuer

2026-06-30

Where each fund's money sits by the issuer country its filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Two funds can share companies and still differ here, and a pair that looks diversified by name can be one country twice.

CountryQQQVEADifference
United States 94.64% 3.19% +91.45
Japan 0.00% 20.94% −20.94
United Kingdom 0.85% 10.91% −10.06
Canada 0.74% 10.54% −9.80
South Korea 0.00% 7.15% −7.15
Switzerland 0.00% 6.94% −6.94
France 0.00% 6.88% −6.88
Germany 0.00% 6.25% −6.25
Australia 0.00% 5.57% −5.57
Netherlands° 1.58% 4.22% −2.64

What each fund did last quarter

Each fund's newest filing against its previous one. A pair whose overlap is rising or falling does so because of these moves; the figures are the same ones on each fund's page and in its feed.

FundPeriodPositionsAddedDroppedTurnoverLargest increase
QQQ 2026-03-31 → 2026-06-30 101 → 103 11917.6% Micron Technology, Inc. 2.15% → 5.64%
VEA 2026-03-31 → 2026-06-30 3,880 → 3,861 274610.1% SK hynix Inc 1.06% → 3.03%

Related comparisons

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Other pairs involving QQQ or VEA, ordered by how much they overlap.

PairOverlapCombined effective
QQQ vs QQQM 91.56% 33.2
VEA vs VXUS 71.67% 313.8
QQQ vs VUG 59.22% 27.7
QQQ vs XLK 56.76% 24.8
QQQ vs VOO 54.46% 44.2
IVV vs QQQ 53.66% 44.2
QQQ vs VGT 50.6% 24.3
QQQ vs VTI 48.13% 49.4

Sources and limits

Computed from SEC Form N-PORT (NPORT-P), the portfolio report every registered US fund files. Positions below 0.001% of net assets are dropped; weights are normalised to each filing's own total.

Unit investment trusts including SPY and DIA do not file N-PORT, so no overlap can be computed for them. Where a comparison is missing from this site, that is usually why rather than an oversight.

Overlap says what is held in common, not what will move together. Two funds with no shared holdings can still fall together, and the effective holding count takes no account of correlation. All 275 pairs are in the concentration dataset, and every fund's own history is on its fund page.