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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and RPV +22.2%.

Which is cheaper, FTA or RPV?

RPV 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 RPV overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 99% of RPV by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FTA vs RPV: how they differ

FTA and RPV hold 36% of their weight in the same names, and RPV returned +22.2% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund and Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value ETF.

RPV costs 0.23 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 2.4 points; RPV is 1.2 times larger.

	FTA	RPV
Expense ratio	0.58%	0.35%
Net assets	$1.4bn	$1.7bn
Total return, 1 year	+19.8%	+22.2%
Holdings in common	36%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	9.5%	22.6%
Below its high	6.0%, high on Aug 24, 2026	4.4%, 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

+22.2%

RPV total return, 1 year

0.58%

FTA expense ratio

0.35%

RPV expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FTA and RPV hold 36% 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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36% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FTA RPV

Global Payments Inc. 0.88% 1.11%

Comcast Corporation (Class A) 0.83% 0.90%

American International Group, Inc. 0.91% 0.78%

General Motors Company 0.75% 1.79%

The Cigna Group 0.73% 1.66%

Diamondback Energy, Inc. 0.73% 0.73%

Loews Corporation 0.72% 0.77%

Devon Energy Corporation 0.92% 0.71%

Occidental Petroleum Corporation 0.95% 0.70%

Delta Air Lines, Inc. 0.69% 0.88%

The Allstate Corporation 0.90% 0.68%

United Airlines Holdings, Inc. 0.68% 0.85%

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%

Permian Resources Corp. 0.95%

Carnival Corporation Ltd. 0.94%

EOG Resources, Inc. 0.94%

Only in RPV

Centene Corp 2.69%

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co 2.52%

Humana Inc 2.36%

Ford Motor Co 1.73%

LyondellBasell Industries NV 1.56%

Everest Group Ltd 1.55%

Tyson Foods Inc 1.48%

Mosaic Co/The 1.43%

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On the same fields

FTA

First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund

RPV

Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value 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% +22.2%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +2.5 pts +5.0 pts

Expense ratio 0.58% 0.35%

Already in the S&P 500 93.0% 99.1%

Holdings 187 120

Net assets $1.4bn $1.7bn

FTA and RPV 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.

RPV in plain words

RPV tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +22.2% 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 8, 2026, 99% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 120 positions, with the top ten at 22.6%. It sat 4.4% below its high of Sep 3, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FTA or RPV?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and RPV +22.2%.
Which is cheaper, FTA or RPV?: RPV 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 RPV overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 99% of RPV 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 ↗RPV filings on SEC EDGAR ↗RPV prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Invesco page for RPV ↗

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

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