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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and RSPA +12.6%.

Which is cheaper, FTA or RSPA?

RSPA is cheaper, by 0.29 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $29. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 74% of RSPA by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FTA vs RSPA: how they differ

FTA and RSPA hold 25% of their weight in the same names, and FTA returned +19.8% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund and Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Income Advantage ETF.

RSPA costs 0.29 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 7.2 points; FTA is 1.1 times larger.

	FTA	RSPA
Expense ratio	0.58%	0.29%
Net assets	$1.4bn	$1.2bn
Total return, 1 year	+19.8%	+12.6%
Holdings in common	25%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	9.5%	4.2%
Below its high	6.0%, high on Aug 24, 2026	3.2%, 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

+12.6%

RSPA total return, 1 year

0.58%

FTA expense ratio

0.29%

RSPA expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FTA and RSPA hold 25% 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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25% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FTA RSPA

PTC Inc. 0.97% 0.23%

Accenture plc 0.58% 0.18%

Marathon Petroleum Corporation 0.59% 0.17%

Carnival Corporation Ltd. 0.94% 0.17%

Valero Energy Corporation 0.57% 0.17%

Super Micro Computer, Inc. 0.89% 0.17%

The Kroger Co. 0.18% 0.16%

Phillips 66 0.56% 0.16%

Southwest Airlines Co. 0.35% 0.16%

HCA Healthcare, Inc. 0.54% 0.16%

PayPal Holdings, Inc. 0.74% 0.16%

Viatris Inc. 0.51% 0.16%

Only in FTA

HF Sinclair Corp. 0.99%

Ovintiv Inc. 0.97%

Permian Resources Corp. 0.95%

Markel Group Inc 0.90%

Annaly Capital Management, Inc. 0.85%

Tenet Healthcare Corporation 0.72%

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

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated 0.69%

Only in RSPA

Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.61%

Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.55%

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 0.43%

Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.43%

Royal Bank of Canada 0.42%

Wells Fargo & Co 0.39%

JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.36%

Barclays Bank PLC 0.36%

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On the same fields

FTA

First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund

RSPA

Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Income Advantage ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust Invesco

What it is Tracks an index Actively managed

Total return, 1 year +19.8% +12.6%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +2.5 pts −4.7 pts

Expense ratio 0.58% 0.29%

Already in the S&P 500 93.0% 74.0%

Holdings 187 520

Net assets $1.4bn $1.2bn

FTA and RSPA 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.

RSPA in plain words

RSPA is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +12.6% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.29% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 74% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 520 positions, with the top ten at 4.2%. It sat 3.2% below its high of Aug 26, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FTA or RSPA?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and RSPA +12.6%.
Which is cheaper, FTA or RSPA?: RSPA is cheaper, by 0.29 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $29. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FTA and RSPA overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 74% of RSPA 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 ↗RSPA filings on SEC EDGAR ↗RSPA prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Invesco page for RSPA ↗

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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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