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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, EMLP returned +14.8% and FTA +19.8%.

Which is cheaper, EMLP or FTA?

FTA is cheaper, by 0.37 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $37. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 43% of EMLP and 93% of FTA by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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EMLP vs FTA: how they differ

EMLP and FTA hold 10% of their weight in the same names, and FTA returned +19.8% over the year. First Trust North American Energy Infrastructure Fund and First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund.

FTA costs 0.37 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 5.0 points; EMLP is 3.0 times larger.

	EMLP	FTA
Expense ratio	0.95%	0.58%
Net assets	$4.1bn	$1.4bn
Total return, 1 year	+14.8%	+19.8%
Holdings in common	10%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	42.7%	9.5%
Below its high	4.8%, high on Jul 23, 2026	6.0%, high on Aug 24, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 9, 2026.

+14.8%

EMLP total return, 1 year

+19.8%

FTA total return, 1 year

0.95%

EMLP expense ratio

0.58%

FTA expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, EMLP and FTA hold 10% 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 9, 2026.

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10% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding EMLP FTA

PPL Corporation 2.88% 0.73%

Xcel Energy Inc. 1.81% 0.73%

Ameren Corporation 1.02% 0.72%

Evergy, Inc. 1.66% 0.72%

Kinder Morgan, Inc. 3.88% 0.55%

Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated 1.85% 0.55%

ONEOK, Inc. 2.31% 0.54%

Atmos Energy Corporation 1.29% 0.53%

CMS Energy Corporation 2.06% 0.53%

DTE Energy Company 1.53% 0.53%

NiSource Inc. 0.76% 0.53%

PG&E Corporation 0.50% 0.94%

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%

National Fuel Gas Company 3.88%

Duke Energy Corporation 2.53%

Entergy Corporation 2.32%

ONE Gas, Inc. 2.22%

Only in FTA

HF Sinclair Corp. 0.99%

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%

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On the same fields

EMLP

First Trust North American Energy Infrastructure Fund

FTA

First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust First Trust

What it is Actively managed Tracks an index

Total return, 1 year +14.8% +19.8%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 −2.5 pts +2.5 pts

Expense ratio 0.95% 0.58%

Already in the S&P 500 42.9% 93.0%

Holdings 58 187

Net assets $4.1bn $1.4bn

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

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.

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, EMLP or FTA?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, EMLP returned +14.8% and FTA +19.8%.
Which is cheaper, EMLP or FTA?: FTA is cheaper, by 0.37 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $37. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do EMLP and FTA overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 43% of EMLP and 93% of FTA by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Where these figures came from

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