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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and MDYV +10.4%.

Which is cheaper, FTA or MDYV?

MDYV is cheaper, by 0.43 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $43. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 0% of MDYV by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FTA vs MDYV: how they differ

FTA and MDYV 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 State Street SPDR S & P 400 Mid Cap Value ETF.

MDYV costs 0.43 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 9.4 points; MDYV is 2.0 times larger.

	FTA	MDYV
Expense ratio	0.58%	0.15%
Net assets, FTA as of Oct 9, 2026 and MDYV as of Oct 8, 2026	$1.4bn	$2.7bn
Total return, 1 year	+19.8%	+10.4%
Holdings in common	6%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	9.5%	11.0%
Below its high	6.0%, high on Aug 24, 2026	7.1%, high on Aug 14, 2026

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

+19.8%

FTA total return, 1 year

+10.4%

MDYV total return, 1 year

0.58%

FTA expense ratio

0.15%

MDYV expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FTA and MDYV 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 Oct 8, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

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6% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FTA MDYV

HF Sinclair Corp. 0.99% 1.13%

Ovintiv Inc. 0.97% 1.06%

Permian Resources Corp. 0.95% 1.16%

Annaly Capital Management, Inc. 0.85% 0.83%

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated 0.69% 0.84%

Reliance Inc. 0.37% 1.23%

TD SYNNEX Corporation 0.37% 1.30%

East West Bancorp, Inc. 0.35% 0.51%

W.P. Carey Inc. 0.34% 0.41%

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 MDYV

US FOODS HOLDING CORP 1.27%

WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC 1.05%

REINSURANCE GROUP OF AMERICA 1.01%

SHARKNINJA INC 0.93%

ENTEGRIS INC 0.90%

ARAMARK 0.89%

PINNACLE FINANCIAL PARTNERS 0.86%

UNUM GROUP 0.81%

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On the same fields

FTA

First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund

MDYV

State Street SPDR S & P 400 Mid Cap Value ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust State Street

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 −6.9 pts

Expense ratio 0.58% 0.15%

Already in the S&P 500 93.0% 0.0%

Holdings 187 296

Net assets, FTA as of Oct 9, 2026 and MDYV as of Oct 8, 2026 $1.4bn $2.7bn

FTA and MDYV 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.

MDYV in plain words

MDYV 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 0.15% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 0% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 296 positions, with the top ten at 11.0%. 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 MDYV?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and MDYV +10.4%.
Which is cheaper, FTA or MDYV?: MDYV is cheaper, by 0.43 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $43. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FTA and MDYV overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 0% of MDYV 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 ↗MDYV filings on SEC EDGAR ↗MDYV prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗State Street website ↗

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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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