Owning the megacap-growth trade in one ticker used to mean paying up for a marquee name like Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) or leaning on Vanguard's growth index.
The technology sector has done well in the past decade, with the Nasdaq 100 Index beating its top peers like the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones. This article explores the outcome if one had invested $10,000 in the Invesco QQQ ETF (QQQ), ProShares UltraPro QQQ (TQQQ), and ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (SQQQ) five years ago.
Your feed is full of Broadcom. The stock chart is a staircase, the AI headlines keep coming, and Hock Tan keeps guiding higher.
Since its initial public offering, SpaceX has become one of the 10 largest companies in the world. Because the Nasdaq-100 is weighted by free-float market cap, SpaceX's allocation to the index will be much smaller than its size would suggest.
CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) and Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) just gave investors two very different reads on the AI trade.
BlackRock joins State Street and Invesco in offering investors ETFs that track the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 index.
The Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) and the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) both get pitched as reasonable core holdings, but they are not interchangeable.
A 45-year-old tech professional sitting on $200,000 in Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) for growth exposure has a fair question in 2026: why hold a Nasdaq-100 fund that includes Costco and Pepsi when a pure-tech alternative exists at half the cost?
If you hold Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ), you own the most heavily traded Nasdaq-100 vehicle on the market.
On its own, the Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) is not much of an income investment. After deducting its 0.18% expense ratio, the ETF currently offers a 0.47% 30-day SEC yield.
The Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) is one of the most popular ETFs among options traders.
While the major indexes are flashing wild price swings that look straight out of a bear market, the broader data tells a completely different story.