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FTA vs IVOV: how they differ

FTA and IVOV hold 6% of their weight in the same names, and FTA returned +19.8% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund and Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF.

IVOV costs 0.48 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 9.4 points; FTA is 1.1 times larger.

FTAIVOV
Expense ratio0.58%0.10%
Net assets, FTA as of Oct 9, 2026 and IVOV as of Sep 30, 2026$1.4bn$1.2bn
Total return, 1 year+19.8%+10.4%
Holdings in common6%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund9.5%10.5%
Below its high6.0%, high on Aug 24, 20267.1%, high on Aug 14, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Aug 31, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

+19.8%
FTA total return, 1 year
+10.4%
IVOV total return, 1 year
0.58%
FTA expense ratio
0.10%
IVOV expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FTA and IVOV hold 6% 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 Aug 31, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

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6% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding FTA IVOV
Ovintiv Inc. 0.97% 1.05%
Permian Resources Corp. 0.95% 1.06%
HF Sinclair Corp. 0.99% 0.90%
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. 0.85% 0.97%
Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated 0.69% 0.98%
Reliance Inc. 0.37% 1.14%
TD SYNNEX Corporation 0.37% 1.10%
East West Bancorp, Inc. 0.35% 0.49%
W.P. Carey Inc. 0.34% 0.42%
Performance Food Group Company 0.18% 0.90%
Only in FTA
PTC Inc. 0.97%
Constellation Brands, Inc. (Class A) 0.95%
EQT Corporation 0.95%
Occidental Petroleum Corporation 0.95%
Carnival Corporation Ltd. 0.94%
ConocoPhillips 0.94%
EOG Resources, Inc. 0.94%
PG&E Corporation 0.94%
Only in IVOV
US Foods Holding Corp 1.34%
WESCO International Inc 0.96%
Reinsurance Group of America Inc 0.94%
Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc 0.87%
Illumina Inc 0.86%
Aramark 0.86%
Unum Group 0.80%
SharkNinja Inc 0.79%

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On the same fields

FTA
First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund
IVOV
Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF
Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF
Issuer First Trust Vanguard
What it is Tracks an index Tracks an index
Total return, 1 year +19.8% +10.4%
S&P 500 over the same days +17.3% +17.3%
Gap to the S&P 500 +2.5 pts −6.8 pts
Expense ratio 0.58% 0.10%
Already in the S&P 500 93.0% 0.0%
Holdings 187 299
Net assets, FTA as of Oct 9, 2026 and IVOV as of Sep 30, 2026 $1.4bn $1.2bn

FTA and IVOV 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.

IVOV in plain words

IVOV tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +10.4% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.10% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer as of Aug 31, 2026, 0% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 299 positions, with the top ten at 10.5%. It sat 7.1% below its high of Aug 14, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FTA or IVOV?
In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and IVOV +10.4%.
Which is cheaper, FTA or IVOV?
IVOV is cheaper, by 0.48 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $48. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FTA and IVOV overlap with the S&P 500?
By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 0% of IVOV 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 ↗IVOV filings on SEC EDGAR ↗IVOV prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Vanguard page for IVOV ↗

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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 IVOV, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/any/fta-vs-ivov

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