Prepare For The Long Haul: I Prefer QQQM Over QQQ

With continued Nasdaq price appreciation expansion and rate cuts, I see a mixed combination of elevated valuations and robust growth potential. This combination requires a disciplined and long-term-oriented approach. Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF offers a structurally superior long-term vehicle over QQQ for this approach.

Seeking Alpha • 20 hours ago

1 Tech ETF to Buy Hand Over Fist and 1 to Avoid in 2026

The Invesco Nasdaq 100 ETF (QQQM) mirrors the Nasdaq-100 index. QQQM is virtually the same as the Invesco QQQ Trust ETF, but with a lower expense ratio.

The Motley Fool • Dec 11, 2025

5 ETF Stories That Defined November

Two key forces drove investors' November interests on this ETF content platform: the strategic hunt for durable growth amidst tech volatility, and the perennial demand for income and alternative diversification.  The five most popular articles on our platform last month reflect this split.

ETF Trends • Dec 8, 2025

These ETFs Hold Stocks That Can Spread Holiday Cheer

Stocks gave investors much to be thankful during Thanksgiving Week, as highlighted by a 5.79% rally the Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX). That's good news for the NDX-tracking Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) and the Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM), but the impressive final week to November is now in the rearview mirror.

ETF Trends • Dec 5, 2025

AI Investment Thesis Took Its Lumps, But Remains Sturdy

November was a tricky month for large- and megacap growth stocks. That was highlighted by the Nasdaq-100 (NDX) and S&P 500 Growth indexes finishing in the red in the 11th month of the year.

ETF Trends • Dec 3, 2025

QQQM Delivers The Cheapest Leverage In The Market

Most leveraged ETFs are risky due to compounding and reset mechanics, often misleadingly backtested, and unsuitable for long-term investors. However, investors should consider that beta can often act as a form of leverage. In this way, the NASDAQ 100, QQQM, is almost like a levered S&P 500. In backtests, we can see that holding 60% QQQM and 40% cash amounts to roughly the same annualized return, with lower volatility, than holding the S&P 500 outright.

Seeking Alpha • Dec 4, 2025

Seeing the Tech Forest Through Trees of Volatility

The Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) is lower by 3.36% over the past month, and plenty of growth stocks across all market capitalization segments performing significantly worse than that. Some retail investors are worried the once easy money tech trade is evaporating.

ETF Trends • Dec 2, 2025

AI Bubble Talk May Be the Real Bubble

These days, it's not unreasonable for investors to feel as if there's one word attached to AI: “bubble.” AI bubble talk is increasing in frequency, as are comparisons to the internet bubble of 2000.

ETF Trends • Nov 28, 2025

Profit Margins Paint Encouraging Pictures for These ETFs

Market participants have rapidly become concerned about the state of affairs with growth stocks. That includes some of the previously sturdy megacap names.

ETF Trends • Nov 24, 2025

In AI, Software Is Coming to the Forefront

Experienced market participants know the early innings of the AI investing thesis have largely been marked by hardware; namely, semiconductors. It's a key reason Nvidia (NVDA) is the first artificial intelligence stock that comes to many investors' minds.

ETF Trends • Nov 19, 2025