JGRO vs QQQM: Differences, Returns & Fees

JGRO and QQQM hold 45% of their weight in the same names, and QQQM returned +18.0% over the year. Net assets on Oct 20, 2026: $9.8bn for JPMorgan Active Growth ETF and $108.5bn for Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF.

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QQQM costs 0.29 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 17.9 points; QQQM is 11.1 times larger.

JGRO vs QQQM: Differences, Returns & Fees
JGROQQQM
Expense ratio0.44%0.15%
Net assets$9.8bn$108.5bn
Total return, 1 year+0.1%+18.0%
What it tracksNo index, actively managedNasdaq-100 Index
Holdings in common45%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund51.1%47.2%
Below its high5.6%, high on Jun 2, 20265.5%, high on Oct 6, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 19, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026.

+0.1%
JGRO total return, 1 year
+18.0%
QQQM total return, 1 year
0.44%
JGRO expense ratio
0.15%
QQQM expense ratio

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JGRO and QQQM are built for the same job. How do they differ in cost, holdings and results?

  1. What each follows. JGRO follows No index, actively managed and QQQM follows Nasdaq-100 Index.
  2. Holdings in common. 45% of the weight is in the same securities (holdings dated Oct 20, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026).
  3. One-year total return. Over 1 year to Oct 20, 2026 JGRO returned +0.1% and QQQM +18.0% with distributions reinvested, a gap of 17.9 points.

Data as of Oct 20, 2026. The differences are picked by a fixed rule, in a fixed order; the PDF prints it. Page 2 has the returns, overlap, risks and sources.

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What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, JGRO and QQQM hold 45% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Oct 19, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026.

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45% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding JGRO QQQM
NVIDIA CORP COMMON STOCK 12.50% 8.17%
APPLE INC COMMON STOCK 6.15% 7.82%
MICROSOFT CORP COMMON 4.88% 6.19%
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 3.11% 3.79%
ALPHABET INC-CL C 10.72% 2.94%
META PLATFORMS INC 2.90% 3.28%
BROADCOM INC COMMON 3.88% 2.49%
MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 2.42% 4.41%
TESLA INC COMMON STOCK 1.50% 3.02%
AMAZON.COM INC COMMON 1.42% 4.42%
PALO ALTO NETWORKS INC 1.56% 1.22%
CROWDSTRIKE HOLDINGS INC 1.40% 1.01%
Only in JGRO
ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 2.70%
MASTERCARD INC COMMON 1.87%
NATERA INC COMMON STOCK 1.74%
PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 1.43%
JOHNSON & JOHNSON 1.17%
SNOWFLAKE INC COMMON 0.95%
3M CO COMMON STOCK USD 0.88%
MERCK & CO INC COMMON 0.88%
Only in QQQM
Alphabet Inc 3.15%
Costco Wholesale Corp 1.90%
Linde PLC 1.00%
KLA Corp 0.94%
Shopify Inc 0.89%
PepsiCo Inc 0.79%
QUALCOMM Inc 0.79%
T-Mobile US Inc 0.72%

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On the same fields

JGRO
JPMorgan Active Growth ETF
QQQM
Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF
Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF
What it is Actively managed Tracks the Nasdaq-100
Total return, 1 year +0.1% +18.0%
Its benchmark over the same days +4.0% (IWF) +17.9% (QQQ)
Gap to its benchmark −3.9 pts vs IWF +0.1 pts vs QQQ
Expense ratio 0.44% 0.15%
Already in the S&P 500 85.0% 95.7%
Holdings 135 105
Net assets $9.8bn $108.5bn

JGRO and QQQM on the fields both publish, as of Oct 20, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

About JGRO

JGRO is actively managed and tracks no index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.44% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 20, 2026, 85% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 135 positions, with the top ten at 51.1%. It sat 5.6% below its high of Jun 2, 2026 on Oct 20, 2026.

Over the year to Oct 20, 2026 it returned +0.1% with distributions reinvested, against +4.0% for its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Growth Index.

About QQQM

QQQM tracks the Nasdaq-100. Over the year to Oct 20, 2026 it returned +18.0% with distributions reinvested, against +17.9% for its benchmark, the Nasdaq-100 Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.15% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 19, 2026, 96% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 105 positions, with the top ten at 47.2%. It sat 5.5% below its high of Oct 6, 2026 on Oct 20, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, JGRO or QQQM?
In the year to Oct 20, 2026, with distributions reinvested, JGRO returned +0.1% and QQQM +18.0%.
Which is cheaper, JGRO or QQQM?
QQQM is cheaper, by 0.29 percentage points a year. That is about $29 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do JGRO and QQQM overlap with the S&P 500?
By their latest filed holdings, 85% of JGRO and 96% of QQQM by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.
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