Which returned more over the last year, DVY or EMLP?

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, DVY returned +13.7% and EMLP +14.8%.

Which is cheaper, DVY or EMLP?

DVY is cheaper, by 0.57 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $57. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do DVY and EMLP overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 80% of DVY and 43% of EMLP by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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DVY vs EMLP: how they differ

DVY and EMLP hold 18% of their weight in the same names, and EMLP returned +14.8% over the year. iShares Select Dividend ETF and First Trust North American Energy Infrastructure Fund.

DVY costs 0.57 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 1.1 points; DVY is 5.6 times larger.

	DVY	EMLP
Expense ratio	0.38%	0.95%
Net assets	$22.5bn	$4.1bn
Total return, 1 year	+13.7%	+14.8%
Holdings in common	18%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	19.9%	42.7%
Below its high	6.0%, high on Aug 14, 2026	4.8%, high on Jul 23, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 8, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

+13.7%

DVY total return, 1 year

+14.8%

EMLP total return, 1 year

0.38%

DVY expense ratio

0.95%

EMLP expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, DVY and EMLP hold 18% 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 Oct 8, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

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18% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding DVY EMLP

ONEOK 1.81% 2.31%

DOMINION ENERGY 1.39% 1.36%

FIRSTENERGY CORP 1.13% 1.53%

WEC ENERGY GROUP 1.02% 1.54%

ALLIANT ENERGY CORP 0.94% 1.02%

DTE ENERGY 0.94% 1.53%

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER INC 0.93% 2.32%

PPL CORP 0.93% 2.88%

CMS ENERGY 0.87% 2.06%

PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISE GROUP 0.87% 1.85%

XCEL ENERGY INC 0.85% 1.81%

ENTERGY CORP 0.82% 2.32%

Only in DVY

HP INC 2.53%

PFIZER 2.33%

ALTRIA GROUP INC 2.27%

PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC 2.15%

T ROWE PRICE GROUP 2.07%

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC 1.80%

TARGET CORP 1.74%

VALERO ENERGY CORP 1.63%

Only in EMLP

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. 8.62%

Energy Transfer LP 7.58%

MPLX LP 4.26%

Plains GP Holdings, L.P. (Class A) 3.91%

Kinder Morgan, Inc. 3.88%

National Fuel Gas Company 3.88%

The Southern Company 2.83%

Duke Energy Corporation 2.53%

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On the same fields

DVY

iShares Select Dividend ETF

EMLP

First Trust North American Energy Infrastructure Fund

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer iShares First Trust

What it is Tracks an index of US dividend Actively managed

Total return, 1 year +13.7% +14.8%

S&P 500 over the same days +17.3% +17.3%

Gap to the S&P 500 −3.6 pts −2.5 pts

Expense ratio 0.38% 0.95%

Already in the S&P 500 80.1% 42.9%

Holdings 101 58

Net assets $22.5bn $4.1bn

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

DVY in plain words

DVY tracks an index of US dividend. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +13.7% 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 published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 80% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 101 positions, with the top ten at 19.9%. It sat 6.0% below its high of Aug 14, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

EMLP in plain words

EMLP is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +14.8% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.95% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 43% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 58 positions, with the top ten at 42.7%. It sat 4.8% below its high of Jul 23, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, DVY or EMLP?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, DVY returned +13.7% and EMLP +14.8%.
Which is cheaper, DVY or EMLP?: DVY is cheaper, by 0.57 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $57. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do DVY and EMLP overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 80% of DVY and 43% of EMLP by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Where these figures came from

DVY filings on SEC EDGAR ↗DVY prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗iShares page for DVY ↗EMLP filings on SEC EDGAR ↗EMLP prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for EMLP ↗

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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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