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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, DVY returned +13.7% and FTA +19.8%.

Which is cheaper, DVY or FTA?

DVY 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 DVY and FTA overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 80% of DVY and 93% of FTA by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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DVY vs FTA: how they differ

DVY and FTA hold 24% of their weight in the same names, and FTA returned +19.8% over the year. iShares Select Dividend ETF and First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund.

DVY costs 0.20 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 6.1 points; DVY is 16.7 times larger.

	DVY	FTA
Expense ratio	0.38%	0.58%
Net assets	$22.5bn	$1.4bn
Total return, 1 year	+13.7%	+19.8%
Holdings in common	24%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	19.9%	9.5%
Below its high	6.0%, high on Aug 14, 2026	6.0%, high on Aug 24, 2026

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

+13.7%

DVY total return, 1 year

+19.8%

FTA total return, 1 year

0.38%

DVY expense ratio

0.58%

FTA expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, DVY and FTA hold 24% 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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24% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding DVY FTA

HF SINCLAIR 1.48% 0.99%

EOG RESOURCES 1.34% 0.94%

EDISON INTERNATIONAL 1.22% 0.90%

T ROWE PRICE GROUP 2.07% 0.88%

COMCAST CLASS A 0.96% 0.83%

AT&T 1.18% 0.80%

CINCINNATI FINANCIAL 0.79% 0.90%

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC 1.80% 0.79%

CHEVRON 1.52% 0.73%

PPL CORP 0.93% 0.73%

XCEL ENERGY INC 0.85% 0.73%

EVERSOURCE ENERGY 1.30% 0.72%

Only in DVY

PFIZER 2.33%

ALTRIA GROUP INC 2.27%

FORD MOTOR CO 1.42%

GENERAL MILLS INC 1.42%

DOMINION ENERGY 1.39%

GENUINE PARTS 1.39%

PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC 1.36%

APA 1.33%

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%

Permian Resources Corp. 0.95%

Carnival Corporation Ltd. 0.94%

ConocoPhillips 0.94%

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On the same fields

DVY

iShares Select Dividend ETF

FTA

First Trust Large Cap Value 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% +19.8%

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% 0.58%

Already in the S&P 500 80.1% 93.0%

Holdings 101 187

Net assets $22.5bn $1.4bn

DVY and FTA 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.

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, DVY or FTA?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, DVY returned +13.7% and FTA +19.8%.
Which is cheaper, DVY or FTA?: DVY 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 DVY and FTA overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 80% of DVY and 93% of FTA 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 ↗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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