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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and NOBL +9.8%.

Which is cheaper, FTA or NOBL?

NOBL is cheaper, by 0.23 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $23. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 100% of NOBL by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FTA vs NOBL: how they differ

FTA and NOBL hold 12% of their weight in the same names, and FTA returned +19.8% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund and ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF.

NOBL costs 0.23 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 10.0 points; NOBL is 8.3 times larger.

	FTA	NOBL
Expense ratio	0.58%	0.35%
Net assets	$1.4bn	$11.2bn
Total return, 1 year	+19.8%	+9.8%
Holdings in common	12%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	9.5%	16.7%
Below its high	6.0%, high on Aug 24, 2026	6.3%, high on Aug 24, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 9, 2026.

+19.8%

FTA total return, 1 year

+9.8%

NOBL total return, 1 year

0.58%

FTA expense ratio

0.35%

NOBL expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FTA and NOBL hold 12% 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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12% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FTA NOBL

Cincinnati Financial Corporation 0.90% 1.35%

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. 0.88% 1.34%

Amcor plc 0.87% 1.43%

Chevron Corporation 0.73% 1.63%

Chubb Limited 0.73% 1.47%

Consolidated Edison, Inc. 0.73% 1.40%

Roper Technologies, Inc. 0.73% 1.60%

Eversource Energy 0.72% 1.31%

Nucor Corporation 0.55% 1.57%

Atmos Energy Corporation 0.53% 1.34%

Brown & Brown, Inc. 0.53% 1.42%

ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 0.53% 1.62%

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 NOBL

BECTON DICKINSON AND CO 1.78%

FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC 1.73%

EMERSON ELECTRIC CO 1.71%

NORDSON CORP 1.67%

FASTENAL CO 1.66%

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING 1.65%

INTL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 1.63%

ABBVIE INC 1.62%

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On the same fields

FTA

First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund

NOBL

ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust ProShares

What it is Tracks an index Tracks the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats

Total return, 1 year +19.8% +9.8%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +2.5 pts −7.4 pts

Expense ratio 0.58% 0.35%

Already in the S&P 500 93.0% 99.7%

Holdings 187 69

Net assets $1.4bn $11.2bn

FTA and NOBL 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.

NOBL in plain words

NOBL tracks the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +9.8% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.35% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 100% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 69 positions, with the top ten at 16.7%. It sat 6.3% below its high of Aug 24, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FTA or NOBL?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and NOBL +9.8%.
Which is cheaper, FTA or NOBL?: NOBL is cheaper, by 0.23 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $23. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FTA and NOBL overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 100% of NOBL 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 ↗NOBL filings on SEC EDGAR ↗NOBL prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗ProShares page for NOBL ↗

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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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