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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and PEY +14.8%.

Which is cheaper, FTA or PEY?

FTA is cheaper, by 0.10 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $10. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 51% of PEY by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FTA vs PEY: how they differ

FTA and PEY hold 8% of their weight in the same names, and FTA returned +19.8% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund and Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF.

FTA costs 0.10 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 5.0 points; FTA is 1.3 times larger.

	FTA	PEY
Expense ratio	0.58%	0.68%
Net assets	$1.4bn	$1.1bn
Total return, 1 year	+19.8%	+14.8%
Holdings in common	8%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	9.5%	29.6%
Below its high	6.0%, high on Aug 24, 2026	8.8%, high on Aug 26, 2026

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

+19.8%

FTA total return, 1 year

+14.8%

PEY total return, 1 year

0.58%

FTA expense ratio

0.68%

PEY expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FTA and PEY hold 8% 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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8% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FTA PEY

Edison International 0.90% 3.10%

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. 0.88% 2.05%

Comcast Corporation (Class A) 0.83% 1.87%

Verizon Communications Inc. 0.79% 2.45%

Chevron Corporation 0.73% 1.66%

Eversource Energy 0.72% 1.95%

Best Buy Co., Inc. 0.50% 2.49%

Target Corporation 0.50% 1.30%

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company 0.48% 1.60%

Prudential Financial, Inc. 0.35% 2.15%

U.S. Bancorp 0.35% 1.49%

United Parcel Service, Inc. (Class B) 0.35% 2.69%

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 PEY

Perrigo Co PLC 3.71%

Flowers Foods Inc 3.67%

Universal Corp/VA 3.25%

Altria Group Inc 3.09%

Pfizer Inc 2.79%

Avista Corp 2.39%

Main Street Capital Corp 2.32%

LyondellBasell Industries NV 2.32%

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On the same fields

FTA

First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund

PEY

Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust Invesco

What it is Tracks an index Tracks an index

Total return, 1 year +19.8% +14.8%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +2.5 pts −2.5 pts

Expense ratio 0.58% 0.68%

Already in the S&P 500 93.0% 50.6%

Holdings 187 52

Net assets $1.4bn $1.1bn

FTA and PEY 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.

PEY in plain words

PEY tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +14.8% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.68% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 51% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 52 positions, with the top ten at 29.6%. It sat 8.8% below its high of Aug 26, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FTA or PEY?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and PEY +14.8%.
Which is cheaper, FTA or PEY?: FTA is cheaper, by 0.10 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $10. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FTA and PEY overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 51% of PEY 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 ↗PEY filings on SEC EDGAR ↗PEY prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Invesco page for PEY ↗

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

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