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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FEX returned +17.6% and FTXR +21.2%.

Which is cheaper, FEX or FTXR?

FEX is cheaper, by 0.03 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $3. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 86% of FEX and 73% of FTXR by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FEX vs FTXR: how they differ

FEX and FTXR hold 3% of their weight in the same names, and FTXR returned +21.2% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund and First Trust Nasdaq Transportation ETF.

FEX costs 0.03 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 3.6 points; FEX is 1.6 times larger.

	FEX	FTXR
Expense ratio	0.57%	0.60%
Net assets	$1.6bn	$999m
Total return, 1 year	+17.6%	+21.2%
Holdings in common	3%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	5.0%	58.3%
Below its high	4.1%, high on Aug 14, 2026	9.0%, high on Aug 4, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 9, 2026.

+17.6%

FEX total return, 1 year

+21.2%

FTXR total return, 1 year

0.57%

FEX expense ratio

0.60%

FTXR expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FEX and FTXR hold 3% 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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3% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FEX FTXR

Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. 0.45% 1.13%

General Motors Company 0.37% 7.88%

FedEx Corporation 0.35% 6.73%

Delta Air Lines, Inc. 0.34% 4.32%

Wabtec Corporation 0.34% 2.35%

United Airlines Holdings, Inc. 0.33% 4.08%

J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. 0.18% 1.64%

PACCAR Inc 0.17% 3.57%

Southwest Airlines Co. 0.17% 3.35%

United Parcel Service, Inc. (Class B) 0.17% 3.73%

CSX Corporation 0.09% 3.85%

Union Pacific Corporation 0.09% 7.60%

Only in FEX

PTC Inc. 0.60%

Everpure, Inc. (Class A) 0.51%

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company 0.50%

HF Sinclair Corp. 0.49%

NetApp, Inc. 0.49%

Okta, Inc. 0.48%

Ovintiv Inc. 0.48%

Constellation Brands, Inc. (Class A) 0.47%

Only in FTXR

Tesla, Inc. 8.55%

Ford Motor Company 7.17%

American Airlines Group Inc. 3.90%

Ryder System, Inc. 2.91%

BorgWarner Inc. 2.02%

Lear Corporation 1.66%

Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. 1.58%

Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. 1.54%

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On the same fields

FEX

First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund

FTXR

First Trust Nasdaq Transportation ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust First Trust

What it is Tracks an index Tracks an index

Total return, 1 year +17.6% +21.2%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +0.4 pts +4.0 pts

Expense ratio 0.57% 0.60%

Already in the S&P 500 85.6% 72.8%

Holdings 375 42

Net assets $1.6bn $999m

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

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.

FTXR in plain words

FTXR tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +21.2% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.60% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 73% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 42 positions, with the top ten at 58.3%. It sat 9.0% below its high of Aug 4, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FEX or FTXR?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FEX returned +17.6% and FTXR +21.2%.
Which is cheaper, FEX or FTXR?: FEX is cheaper, by 0.03 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $3. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FEX and FTXR overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 86% of FEX and 73% of FTXR by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Where these figures came from

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

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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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