QLD holdings

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 72.53% at a quoted market price (level 1), 6 issuer countries.

The largest line in QLD's filing is not a stock but ProShares Genius Money Market ETF, a fund position at 8.86% of net assets. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 11 positions were added and 5 dropped; 24.0% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.

The 15 largest of 127 positions in QLD's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Lines the filer classes as derivatives are included at their filed value, which is not their exposure; a swap or option line may carry a counterparty's name. The exposure itself is in the section on counterparties below. Every position, every quarter: QLD.csv.gz.

Share of QLD's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of QLD's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: QLD.json · all funds.

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-02-28, $1m was out to 1 borrower, 0.01% of net assets.

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.01% of net assets, 94.2% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter QLD has filed, with each borrower: QLD.json · all funds.

106 positions became 112: 11 added (5.0% of the fund at the later date), 5 dropped (2.8% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 24.0%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of QLD compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

New: United States of America (0.92%), United States of America (0.68%), Sandisk Corp. (0.67%), United States of America (0.51%), U.S. Treasury Bills (0.44%), U.S. Treasury Bills (0.44%). Gone: United States of America (1.70%), United States of America (0.75%), Thomson Reuters Corp. (0.18%), CoStar Group, Inc. (0.08%), Atlassian Corp. (0.05%).

72.5% of QLD is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $14.46B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

Financing leg as filed: the fund pays FEDL01 + 0.967% on $17.68B of long swap notional . Issuers fill the spread field differently (some file the all-in rate), so compare within an issuer, not across.

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of QLD (40.3). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

• 010 Expense ratio
• 010 Maximum drawdown
• 008 Variance drag
• 007 Total return
• 005 Beta
• 004 Duration
• 004 Standard deviation
• 003 Rebalancing bands

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