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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FEX returned +17.6% and FVD +6.6%.

Which is cheaper, FEX or FVD?

FEX is cheaper, by 0.05 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $5. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 86% of FEX and 63% of FVD by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FEX vs FVD: how they differ

FEX and FVD hold 25% of their weight in the same names, and FEX returned +17.6% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund and First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund.

FEX costs 0.05 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 11.0 points; FVD is 4.8 times larger.

	FEX	FVD
Expense ratio	0.57%	0.62%
Net assets	$1.6bn	$7.6bn
Total return, 1 year	+17.6%	+6.6%
Holdings in common	25%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	5.0%	4.5%
Below its high	4.1%, high on Aug 14, 2026	6.1%, high on Aug 24, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 9, 2026.

+17.6%

FEX total return, 1 year

+6.6%

FVD total return, 1 year

0.57%

FEX expense ratio

0.62%

FVD expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FEX and FVD hold 25% 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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25% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FEX FVD

American International Group, Inc. 0.45% 0.44%

Chevron Corporation 0.45% 0.44%

Constellation Brands, Inc. (Class A) 0.47% 0.44%

Amcor plc 0.43% 0.42%

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. 0.44% 0.42%

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation 0.44% 0.42%

Honeywell International Inc. 0.42% 0.42%

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. 0.44% 0.42%

The Hartford Insurance Group, Inc. 0.46% 0.42%

The Travelers Companies, Inc. 0.45% 0.42%

Cincinnati Financial Corporation 0.44% 0.41%

The Allstate Corporation 0.45% 0.40%

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%

Dell Technologies Inc. (Class C) 0.47%

Only in FVD

Black Hills Corporation 0.45%

Linde Plc 0.45%

MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. (Class A) 0.45%

NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc. 0.45%

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation 0.45%

Shell plc (ADR) 0.45%

The TJX Companies, Inc. 0.45%

Altria Group, Inc. 0.44%

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On the same fields

FEX

First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund

FVD

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund

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% +6.6%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +0.4 pts −10.7 pts

Expense ratio 0.57% 0.62%

Already in the S&P 500 85.6% 62.7%

Holdings 375 239

Net assets $1.6bn $7.6bn

FEX and FVD 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.

FVD in plain words

FVD tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +6.6% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.62% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 63% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 239 positions, with the top ten at 4.5%. It sat 6.1% below its high of Aug 24, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FEX or FVD?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FEX returned +17.6% and FVD +6.6%.
Which is cheaper, FEX or FVD?: FEX is cheaper, by 0.05 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $5. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FEX and FVD overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 86% of FEX and 63% of FVD 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 ↗FVD filings on SEC EDGAR ↗FVD prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for FVD ↗

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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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