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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, DVY returned +13.7% and FEX +17.6%.

Which is cheaper, DVY or FEX?

DVY is cheaper, by 0.19 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $19. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 80% of DVY and 86% of FEX by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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DVY vs FEX: how they differ

DVY and FEX hold 15% of their weight in the same names, and FEX returned +17.6% over the year. iShares Select Dividend ETF and First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund.

DVY costs 0.19 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 3.9 points; DVY is 14.3 times larger.

	DVY	FEX
Expense ratio	0.38%	0.57%
Net assets	$22.5bn	$1.6bn
Total return, 1 year	+13.7%	+17.6%
Holdings in common	15%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	19.9%	5.0%
Below its high	6.0%, high on Aug 14, 2026	4.1%, high on Aug 14, 2026

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

+13.7%

DVY total return, 1 year

+17.6%

FEX total return, 1 year

0.38%

DVY expense ratio

0.57%

FEX expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, DVY and FEX hold 15% 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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15% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding DVY FEX

HF SINCLAIR 1.48% 0.49%

EOG RESOURCES 1.34% 0.46%

CHEVRON 1.52% 0.45%

CINCINNATI FINANCIAL 0.79% 0.44%

EDISON INTERNATIONAL 1.22% 0.44%

T ROWE PRICE GROUP 2.07% 0.44%

COMCAST CLASS A 0.96% 0.41%

AT&T 1.18% 0.39%

VALERO ENERGY CORP 1.63% 0.39%

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC 1.80% 0.39%

EXELON CORP 1.03% 0.36%

EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 1.09% 0.36%

Only in DVY

ALTRIA GROUP INC 2.27%

FORD MOTOR CO 1.42%

GENERAL MILLS INC 1.42%

DOMINION ENERGY 1.39%

GENUINE PARTS 1.39%

APA 1.33%

INVESCO LTD 1.23%

OMNICOM GROUP INC 1.18%

Only in FEX

PTC Inc. 0.60%

Everpure, Inc. (Class A) 0.51%

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company 0.50%

NetApp, Inc. 0.49%

Okta, Inc. 0.48%

Ovintiv Inc. 0.48%

Constellation Brands, Inc. (Class A) 0.47%

Dell Technologies Inc. (Class C) 0.47%

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On the same fields

DVY

iShares Select Dividend ETF

FEX

First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer iShares First Trust

What it is Tracks an index of US dividend Tracks an index

Total return, 1 year +13.7% +17.6%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 −3.6 pts +0.4 pts

Expense ratio 0.38% 0.57%

Already in the S&P 500 80.1% 85.6%

Holdings 101 375

Net assets $22.5bn $1.6bn

DVY and FEX 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.

FEX in plain words

FEX tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +17.6% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.57% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 86% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 375 positions, with the top ten at 5.0%. It sat 4.1% below its high of Aug 14, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, DVY or FEX?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, DVY returned +13.7% and FEX +17.6%.
Which is cheaper, DVY or FEX?: DVY is cheaper, by 0.19 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $19. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do DVY and FEX overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 80% of DVY and 86% of FEX 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 ↗FEX filings on SEC EDGAR ↗FEX prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for FEX ↗

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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, DVY against FEX, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/any/dvy-vs-fex

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