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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FEX returned +17.6% and NOBL +9.8%.

Which is cheaper, FEX or NOBL?

NOBL is cheaper, by 0.22 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $22. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 86% of FEX and 100% of NOBL by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FEX vs NOBL: how they differ

FEX and NOBL hold 10% of their weight in the same names, and FEX returned +17.6% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund and ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF.

NOBL costs 0.22 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 7.8 points; NOBL is 7.1 times larger.

	FEX	NOBL
Expense ratio	0.57%	0.35%
Net assets	$1.6bn	$11.2bn
Total return, 1 year	+17.6%	+9.8%
Holdings in common	10%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	5.0%	16.7%
Below its high	4.1%, high on Aug 14, 2026	6.3%, high on Aug 24, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 9, 2026.

+17.6%

FEX total return, 1 year

+9.8%

NOBL total return, 1 year

0.57%

FEX expense ratio

0.35%

NOBL expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FEX and NOBL 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 FEX NOBL

Chevron Corporation 0.45% 1.63%

Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. 0.45% 1.61%

Roper Technologies, Inc. 0.45% 1.60%

Cincinnati Financial Corporation 0.44% 1.35%

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. 0.44% 1.34%

Amcor plc 0.43% 1.43%

Nucor Corporation 0.37% 1.57%

Chubb Limited 0.36% 1.47%

Consolidated Edison, Inc. 0.36% 1.40%

ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 0.36% 1.62%

Eversource Energy 0.35% 1.31%

PPG Industries, Inc. 0.34% 1.31%

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 NOBL

FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC 1.73%

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING 1.65%

INTL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 1.63%

ERIE INDEMNITY COMPANY-CL A 1.56%

GENUINE PARTS CO 1.56%

WALMART INC 1.51%

JM SMUCKER CO/THE 1.50%

BROWN-FORMAN CORP-CLASS B 1.48%

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On the same fields

FEX

First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund

NOBL

ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust ProShares

What it is Tracks an index Tracks the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats

Total return, 1 year +17.6% +9.8%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +0.4 pts −7.4 pts

Expense ratio 0.57% 0.35%

Already in the S&P 500 85.6% 99.7%

Holdings 375 69

Net assets $1.6bn $11.2bn

FEX and NOBL 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.

NOBL in plain words

NOBL tracks the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +9.8% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.35% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 100% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 69 positions, with the top ten at 16.7%. It sat 6.3% below its high of Aug 24, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FEX or NOBL?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FEX returned +17.6% and NOBL +9.8%.
Which is cheaper, FEX or NOBL?: NOBL is cheaper, by 0.22 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $22. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FEX and NOBL overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 86% of FEX and 100% of NOBL 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 ↗NOBL filings on SEC EDGAR ↗NOBL prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗ProShares page for NOBL ↗

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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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