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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and FVD +6.6%.

Which is cheaper, FTA or FVD?

FTA is cheaper, by 0.04 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $4. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 63% of FVD by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FTA vs FVD: how they differ

FTA and FVD hold 23% of their weight in the same names, and FTA returned +19.8% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund and First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund.

FTA costs 0.04 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 13.2 points; FVD is 5.6 times larger.

	FTA	FVD
Expense ratio	0.58%	0.62%
Net assets	$1.4bn	$7.6bn
Total return, 1 year	+19.8%	+6.6%
Holdings in common	23%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	9.5%	4.5%
Below its high	6.0%, high on Aug 24, 2026	6.1%, high on Aug 24, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 9, 2026.

+19.8%

FTA total return, 1 year

+6.6%

FVD total return, 1 year

0.58%

FTA expense ratio

0.62%

FVD expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FTA and FVD hold 23% 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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23% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FTA FVD

Accenture plc 0.58% 0.47%

ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 0.53% 0.45%

American International Group, Inc. 0.91% 0.44%

Chevron Corporation 0.73% 0.44%

Constellation Brands, Inc. (Class A) 0.95% 0.44%

PPL Corporation 0.73% 0.44%

Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated 0.55% 0.44%

Atmos Energy Corporation 0.53% 0.43%

CMS Energy Corporation 0.53% 0.43%

Chubb Limited 0.73% 0.43%

Consolidated Edison, Inc. 0.73% 0.43%

Evergy, Inc. 0.72% 0.43%

Only in FTA

HF Sinclair Corp. 0.99%

Ovintiv Inc. 0.97%

PTC Inc. 0.97%

EQT Corporation 0.95%

Occidental Petroleum Corporation 0.95%

Permian Resources Corp. 0.95%

Carnival Corporation Ltd. 0.94%

ConocoPhillips 0.94%

Only in FVD

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. 0.47%

Amgen Inc. 0.45%

Black Hills Corporation 0.45%

Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.45%

Emerson Electric Co. 0.45%

Linde Plc 0.45%

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

NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc. 0.45%

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On the same fields

FTA

First Trust Large Cap Value 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 +19.8% +6.6%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +2.5 pts −10.7 pts

Expense ratio 0.58% 0.62%

Already in the S&P 500 93.0% 62.7%

Holdings 187 239

Net assets $1.4bn $7.6bn

FTA and FVD 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.

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, FTA or FVD?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and FVD +6.6%.
Which is cheaper, FTA or FVD?: FTA is cheaper, by 0.04 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $4. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FTA and FVD overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 63% of FVD 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 ↗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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