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DHS vs FTA: how they differ

DHS and FTA hold 17% of their weight in the same names, and FTA returned +19.8% over the year. WisdomTree U.S. High Dividend Fund and First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund.

DHS costs 0.20 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 3.2 points; DHS is 1.1 times larger.

DHSFTA
Expense ratio0.38%0.58%
Net assets, DHS as of Jun 30, 2026 and FTA as of Oct 9, 2026$1.5bn$1.4bn
Total return, 1 year+16.6%+19.8%
Holdings in common17%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund32.3%9.5%
Below its high5.2%, high on Aug 19, 20266.0%, high on Aug 24, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

+16.6%
DHS total return, 1 year
+19.8%
FTA total return, 1 year
0.38%
DHS expense ratio
0.58%
FTA expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, DHS and FTA hold 17% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

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17% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding DHS FTA
COMCAST CORP 1.76% 0.83%
AT&T INC 2.60% 0.80%
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC 2.45% 0.79%
CHEVRON CORP 2.19% 0.73%
EXELON CORP 0.82% 0.72%
TRUIST FINANCIAL CORP 1.19% 0.70%
CONOCOPHILLIPS 0.66% 0.94%
T. ROWE PRICE GROUP INC 0.57% 0.88%
EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 3.16% 0.53%
KEYCORP 0.54% 0.51%
REGIONS FINANCIAL CORP 0.53% 0.51%
TARGET CORP 0.51% 0.50%
Only in DHS
ABBVIE INC 4.94%
MERCK & COMPANY INC 4.26%
ALTRIA GROUP INC 3.79%
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC 3.42%
PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 3.15%
TRANSDIGM GROUP INC 2.04%
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 2.01%
PFIZER INC 1.87%
Only in FTA
Ovintiv Inc. 0.97%
PTC Inc. 0.97%
Constellation Brands, Inc. (Class A) 0.95%
EQT Corporation 0.95%
Occidental Petroleum Corporation 0.95%
Carnival Corporation Ltd. 0.94%
PG&E Corporation 0.94%
Devon Energy Corporation 0.92%

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On the same fields

DHS
WisdomTree U.S. High Dividend Fund
FTA
First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund
Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF
Issuer WisdomTree First Trust
What it is Tracks an index Tracks an index
Total return, 1 year +16.6% +19.8%
S&P 500 over the same days +17.3% +17.3%
Gap to the S&P 500 −0.6 pts +2.5 pts
Expense ratio 0.38% 0.58%
Already in the S&P 500 78.3% 93.0%
Holdings 323 187
Net assets, DHS as of Jun 30, 2026 and FTA as of Oct 9, 2026 $1.5bn $1.4bn

DHS and FTA on the fields both publish, as of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

DHS in plain words

DHS tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +16.6% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.38% a year. By its holdings filed for Jun 30, 2026, 78% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 323 positions, with the top ten at 32.3%. It sat 5.2% below its high of Aug 19, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

FTA in plain words

FTA tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +19.8% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.58% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 93% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 187 positions, with the top ten at 9.5%. It sat 6.0% below its high of Aug 24, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, DHS or FTA?
In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, DHS returned +16.6% and FTA +19.8%.
Which is cheaper, DHS or FTA?
DHS is cheaper, by 0.20 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $20. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do DHS and FTA overlap with the S&P 500?
By their latest filed holdings, 78% of DHS and 93% of FTA by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.
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Where these figures came from
DHS filings on SEC EDGAR ↗DHS prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗WisdomTree website ↗FTA filings on SEC EDGAR ↗FTA prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for FTA ↗

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How this is computed

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed.

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ETFIQ, DHS against FTA, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/any/dhs-vs-fta

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