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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FEX returned +17.6% and VFLO +42.3%.

Which is cheaper, FEX or VFLO?

VFLO is cheaper, by 0.18 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $18. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 86% of FEX and 84% of VFLO by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FEX vs VFLO: how they differ

FEX and VFLO hold 13% of their weight in the same names, and VFLO returned +42.3% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund and VictoryShares Free Cash Flow ETF.

VFLO costs 0.18 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 24.7 points; VFLO is 4.9 times larger.

	FEX	VFLO
Expense ratio	0.57%	0.39%
Net assets, FEX as of Oct 9, 2026 and VFLO as of Jun 30, 2026	$1.6bn	$7.8bn
Total return, 1 year	+17.6%	+42.3%
Holdings in common	13%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	5.0%	30.8%
Below its high	4.1%, high on Aug 14, 2026	5.4%, high on Sep 3, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

+17.6%

FEX total return, 1 year

+42.3%

VFLO total return, 1 year

0.57%

FEX expense ratio

0.39%

VFLO expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FEX and VFLO hold 13% 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 Jun 30, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

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Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FEX VFLO

NetApp, Inc. 0.49% 1.04%

EQT Corporation 0.47% 1.64%

Permian Resources Corp. 0.47% 2.10%

ConocoPhillips 0.46% 2.11%

EOG Resources, Inc. 0.46% 2.37%

Devon Energy Corporation 0.45% 3.49%

Expand Energy Corporation 0.45% 2.21%

Roper Technologies, Inc. 0.45% 1.32%

The Cigna Group 0.45% 2.66%

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. 0.44% 0.95%

Newmont Corporation 0.44% 3.01%

Leidos Holdings, Inc. 0.43% 1.05%

Only in FEX

PTC Inc. 0.60%

Everpure, Inc. (Class A) 0.51%

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company 0.50%

HF Sinclair Corp. 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 VFLO

EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION 2.76%

BOOKING HOLDINGS INC. 2.73%

UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 2.67%

CENTENE CORPORATION 2.16%

OMNICOM GROUP INC. 2.10%

ROYALTY PHARMA PLC 1.76%

VISTRA CORP. 1.67%

TOLL BROTHERS, INC. 1.57%

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On the same fields

FEX

First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund

VFLO

VictoryShares Free Cash Flow ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust VictoryShares

What it is Tracks an index Tracks an index

Total return, 1 year +17.6% +42.3%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +0.4 pts +25.1 pts

Expense ratio 0.57% 0.39%

Already in the S&P 500 85.6% 83.8%

Holdings 375 50

Net assets, FEX as of Oct 9, 2026 and VFLO as of Jun 30, 2026 $1.6bn $7.8bn

FEX and VFLO 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.

VFLO in plain words

VFLO tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +42.3% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.39% a year. By its holdings filed for Jun 30, 2026, 84% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 50 positions, with the top ten at 30.8%. It sat 5.4% below its high of Sep 3, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FEX or VFLO?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FEX returned +17.6% and VFLO +42.3%.
Which is cheaper, FEX or VFLO?: VFLO is cheaper, by 0.18 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $18. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FEX and VFLO overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 86% of FEX and 84% of VFLO 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 ↗VFLO filings on SEC EDGAR ↗VFLO prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

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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 VFLO, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/any/fex-vs-vflo

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