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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and PKW +12.5%.

Which is cheaper, FTA or PKW?

FTA is cheaper, by 0.05 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $5. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 69% of PKW by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FTA vs PKW: how they differ

FTA and PKW hold 15% of their weight in the same names, and FTA returned +19.8% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund and Invesco BuyBack Achievers ETF.

FTA costs 0.05 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 7.3 points; PKW is 1.3 times larger.

	FTA	PKW
Expense ratio	0.58%	0.63%
Net assets	$1.4bn	$1.7bn
Total return, 1 year	+19.8%	+12.5%
Holdings in common	15%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	9.5%	41.3%
Below its high	6.0%, high on Aug 24, 2026	4.5%, high on Sep 3, 2026

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

+19.8%

FTA total return, 1 year

+12.5%

PKW total return, 1 year

0.58%

FTA expense ratio

0.63%

PKW expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FTA and PKW hold 15% 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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Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FTA PKW

American International Group, Inc. 0.91% 1.26%

Arch Capital Group Ltd. 0.91% 1.01%

General Motors Company 0.75% 2.43%

PayPal Holdings, Inc. 0.74% 1.70%

Wells Fargo & Company 0.73% 4.63%

The Travelers Companies, Inc. 0.72% 2.55%

M&T Bank Corporation 0.70% 0.89%

First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (Class A) 0.70% 0.70%

D.R. Horton, Inc. 0.69% 0.96%

Synchrony Financial 0.72% 0.66%

Marathon Petroleum Corporation 0.59% 4.18%

Tenet Healthcare Corporation 0.72% 0.57%

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 PKW

Charles Schwab Corp/The 4.89%

Johnson Controls International plc 3.26%

Ameriprise Financial Inc 1.36%

MSCI Inc 1.25%

Workday Inc 1.07%

Expedia Group Inc 0.94%

AerCap Holdings NV 0.86%

Corpay Inc 0.80%

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On the same fields

FTA

First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund

PKW

Invesco BuyBack 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% +12.5%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +2.5 pts −4.8 pts

Expense ratio 0.58% 0.63%

Already in the S&P 500 93.0% 68.8%

Holdings 187 288

Net assets $1.4bn $1.7bn

FTA and PKW 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.

PKW in plain words

PKW tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +12.5% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.63% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 69% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 288 positions, with the top ten at 41.3%. It sat 4.5% below its high of Sep 3, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FTA or PKW?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and PKW +12.5%.
Which is cheaper, FTA or PKW?: FTA is cheaper, by 0.05 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $5. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FTA and PKW overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 69% of PKW 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 ↗PKW filings on SEC EDGAR ↗PKW prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Invesco page for PKW ↗

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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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