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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and FTXR +21.2%.

Which is cheaper, FTA or FTXR?

FTA is cheaper, by 0.02 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $2. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 73% of FTXR by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FTA vs FTXR: how they differ

FTA and FTXR hold 4% of their weight in the same names, and FTXR returned +21.2% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund and First Trust Nasdaq Transportation ETF.

FTA costs 0.02 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 1.4 points; FTA is 1.4 times larger.

	FTA	FTXR
Expense ratio	0.58%	0.60%
Net assets	$1.4bn	$999m
Total return, 1 year	+19.8%	+21.2%
Holdings in common	4%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	9.5%	58.3%
Below its high	6.0%, high on Aug 24, 2026	9.0%, high on Aug 4, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 9, 2026.

+19.8%

FTA total return, 1 year

+21.2%

FTXR total return, 1 year

0.58%

FTA expense ratio

0.60%

FTXR expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FTA and FTXR hold 4% 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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4% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FTA FTXR

General Motors Company 0.75% 7.88%

FedEx Corporation 0.72% 6.73%

Delta Air Lines, Inc. 0.69% 4.32%

United Airlines Holdings, Inc. 0.68% 4.08%

Southwest Airlines Co. 0.35% 3.35%

United Parcel Service, Inc. (Class B) 0.35% 3.73%

Only in FTA

HF Sinclair Corp. 0.99%

Ovintiv Inc. 0.97%

PTC Inc. 0.97%

Constellation Brands, Inc. (Class A) 0.95%

EQT Corporation 0.95%

Occidental Petroleum Corporation 0.95%

Permian Resources Corp. 0.95%

Carnival Corporation Ltd. 0.94%

Only in FTXR

Tesla, Inc. 8.55%

Union Pacific Corporation 7.60%

Ford Motor Company 7.17%

United Rentals, Inc. 4.21%

American Airlines Group Inc. 3.90%

CSX Corporation 3.85%

PACCAR Inc 3.57%

Ryder System, Inc. 2.91%

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On the same fields

FTA

First Trust Large Cap Value 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 +19.8% +21.2%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +2.5 pts +4.0 pts

Expense ratio 0.58% 0.60%

Already in the S&P 500 93.0% 72.8%

Holdings 187 42

Net assets $1.4bn $999m

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

FTA in plain words

FTA tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +19.8% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.58% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 93% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 187 positions, with the top ten at 9.5%. It sat 6.0% below its high of Aug 24, 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, FTA or FTXR?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and FTXR +21.2%.
Which is cheaper, FTA or FTXR?: FTA is cheaper, by 0.02 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $2. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FTA and FTXR overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 73% of FTXR by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Where these figures came from

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