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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FEX returned +17.6% and RPV +22.2%.

Which is cheaper, FEX or RPV?

RPV 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 RPV overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 86% of FEX and 99% of RPV by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FEX vs RPV: how they differ

FEX and RPV hold 25% of their weight in the same names, and RPV returned +22.2% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund and Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value ETF.

RPV costs 0.22 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 4.6 points.

	FEX	RPV
Expense ratio	0.57%	0.35%
Net assets	$1.6bn	$1.7bn
Total return, 1 year	+17.6%	+22.2%
Holdings in common	25%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	5.0%	22.6%
Below its high	4.1%, high on Aug 14, 2026	4.4%, high on Sep 3, 2026

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

+17.6%

FEX total return, 1 year

+22.2%

RPV total return, 1 year

0.57%

FEX expense ratio

0.35%

RPV expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FEX and RPV 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 8, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

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Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FEX RPV

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company 0.50% 2.52%

Occidental Petroleum Corporation 0.47% 0.70%

ConocoPhillips 0.46% 0.56%

PG&E Corporation 0.46% 0.62%

American International Group, Inc. 0.45% 0.78%

Arch Capital Group Ltd. 0.45% 0.52%

Chevron Corporation 0.45% 0.65%

Devon Energy Corporation 0.45% 0.71%

The Allstate Corporation 0.45% 0.68%

The Cigna Group 0.45% 1.66%

The Travelers Companies, Inc. 0.45% 0.53%

Edison International 0.44% 0.60%

Only in FEX

PTC Inc. 0.60%

Everpure, Inc. (Class A) 0.51%

HF Sinclair Corp. 0.49%

NetApp, Inc. 0.49%

Okta, Inc. 0.48%

Ovintiv Inc. 0.48%

Constellation Brands, Inc. (Class A) 0.47%

Dell Technologies Inc. (Class C) 0.47%

Only in RPV

Centene Corp 2.69%

Humana Inc 2.36%

Ford Motor Co 1.73%

Everest Group Ltd 1.55%

Tyson Foods Inc 1.48%

Mosaic Co/The 1.43%

APA Corp 1.27%

Stanley Black & Decker Inc 1.16%

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On the same fields

FEX

First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund

RPV

Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust Invesco

What it is Tracks an index Tracks an index

Total return, 1 year +17.6% +22.2%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +0.4 pts +5.0 pts

Expense ratio 0.57% 0.35%

Already in the S&P 500 85.6% 99.1%

Holdings 375 120

Net assets $1.6bn $1.7bn

FEX and RPV 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.

RPV in plain words

RPV tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +22.2% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.35% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 99% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 120 positions, with the top ten at 22.6%. It sat 4.4% below its high of Sep 3, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FEX or RPV?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FEX returned +17.6% and RPV +22.2%.
Which is cheaper, FEX or RPV?: RPV 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 RPV overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 86% of FEX and 99% of RPV 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 ↗RPV filings on SEC EDGAR ↗RPV prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Invesco page for RPV ↗

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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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ETFIQ, FEX against RPV, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/any/fex-vs-rpv

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