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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and IMCV +20.8%.

Which is cheaper, FTA or IMCV?

IMCV is cheaper, by 0.52 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $52. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 92% of IMCV by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FTA vs IMCV: how they differ

FTA and IMCV hold 44% of their weight in the same names, and IMCV returned +20.8% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund and iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF.

IMCV costs 0.52 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 1.0 point; FTA is 1.2 times larger.

	FTA	IMCV
Expense ratio	0.58%	0.06%
Net assets	$1.4bn	$1.1bn
Total return, 1 year	+19.8%	+20.8%
Holdings in common	44%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	9.5%	13.6%
Below its high	6.0%, high on Aug 24, 2026	3.7%, high on Aug 24, 2026

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

+19.8%

FTA total return, 1 year

+20.8%

IMCV total return, 1 year

0.58%

FTA expense ratio

0.06%

IMCV expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FTA and IMCV hold 44% 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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44% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FTA IMCV

EOG Resources, Inc. 0.94% 1.12%

Devon Energy Corporation 0.92% 0.77%

General Motors Company 0.75% 1.04%

The Cigna Group 0.73% 1.03%

The Travelers Companies, Inc. 0.72% 1.11%

Truist Financial Corporation 0.70% 0.81%

Delta Air Lines, Inc. 0.69% 0.77%

PayPal Holdings, Inc. 0.74% 0.68%

Xcel Energy Inc. 0.73% 0.66%

Occidental Petroleum Corporation 0.95% 0.63%

Exelon Corporation 0.72% 0.62%

Marathon Petroleum Corporation 0.59% 0.96%

Only in FTA

HF Sinclair Corp. 0.99%

ConocoPhillips 0.94%

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Class B) 0.91%

Super Micro Computer, Inc. 0.89%

Honeywell International Inc. 0.86%

Comcast Corporation (Class A) 0.83%

AT&T Inc. 0.80%

Verizon Communications Inc. 0.79%

Only in IMCV

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC 1.55%

HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE 1.36%

3M 1.22%

MODERNA 1.01%

STRATEGY INC CLASS A 0.80%

PACCAR INC 0.78%

MARSH 0.76%

METLIFE 0.76%

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On the same fields

FTA

First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund

IMCV

iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust iShares

What it is Tracks an index Tracks an index

Total return, 1 year +19.8% +20.8%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +2.5 pts +3.6 pts

Expense ratio 0.58% 0.06%

Already in the S&P 500 93.0% 92.3%

Holdings 187 270

Net assets $1.4bn $1.1bn

FTA and IMCV 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.

IMCV in plain words

IMCV tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +20.8% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.06% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 92% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 270 positions, with the top ten at 13.6%. It sat 3.7% below its high of Aug 24, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FTA or IMCV?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and IMCV +20.8%.
Which is cheaper, FTA or IMCV?: IMCV is cheaper, by 0.52 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $52. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FTA and IMCV overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 92% of IMCV 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 ↗IMCV filings on SEC EDGAR ↗IMCV prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗iShares page for IMCV ↗

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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, FTA against IMCV, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/any/fta-vs-imcv

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