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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and VFLO +42.3%.

Which is cheaper, FTA or VFLO?

VFLO is cheaper, by 0.19 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $19. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 84% of VFLO by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FTA vs VFLO: how they differ

FTA and VFLO hold 15% of their weight in the same names, and VFLO returned +42.3% over the year. First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund and VictoryShares Free Cash Flow ETF.

VFLO costs 0.19 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 22.5 points; VFLO is 5.7 times larger.

	FTA	VFLO
Expense ratio	0.58%	0.39%
Net assets, FTA as of Oct 9, 2026 and VFLO as of Jun 30, 2026	$1.4bn	$7.8bn
Total return, 1 year	+19.8%	+42.3%
Holdings in common	15%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	9.5%	30.8%
Below its high	6.0%, high on Aug 24, 2026	5.4%, high on Sep 3, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

+19.8%

FTA total return, 1 year

+42.3%

VFLO total return, 1 year

0.58%

FTA expense ratio

0.39%

VFLO expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FTA and VFLO 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 Jun 30, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

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Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FTA VFLO

EQT Corporation 0.95% 1.64%

Permian Resources Corp. 0.95% 2.10%

ConocoPhillips 0.94% 2.11%

EOG Resources, Inc. 0.94% 2.37%

Devon Energy Corporation 0.92% 3.49%

Expand Energy Corporation 0.92% 2.21%

Diamondback Energy, Inc. 0.73% 2.35%

Roper Technologies, Inc. 0.73% 1.32%

The Cigna Group 0.73% 2.66%

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. 0.72% 0.95%

Tenet Healthcare Corporation 0.72% 2.37%

Leidos Holdings, Inc. 0.70% 1.05%

Only in FTA

HF Sinclair Corp. 0.99%

Ovintiv Inc. 0.97%

PTC Inc. 0.97%

Constellation Brands, Inc. (Class A) 0.95%

Occidental Petroleum Corporation 0.95%

Carnival Corporation Ltd. 0.94%

PG&E Corporation 0.94%

The Hartford Insurance Group, Inc. 0.92%

Only in VFLO

EXPEDIA GROUP, INC. 3.41%

SANDISK CORPORATION 3.02%

COEUR MINING, INC. 3.02%

NEWMONT CORPORATION 3.01%

MERCK & CO., INC. 2.98%

EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION 2.76%

BOOKING HOLDINGS INC. 2.73%

UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 2.67%

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On the same fields

FTA

First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund

VFLO

VictoryShares Free Cash Flow ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust VictoryShares

What it is Tracks an index Tracks an index

Total return, 1 year +19.8% +42.3%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +2.5 pts +25.1 pts

Expense ratio 0.58% 0.39%

Already in the S&P 500 93.0% 83.8%

Holdings 187 50

Net assets, FTA as of Oct 9, 2026 and VFLO as of Jun 30, 2026 $1.4bn $7.8bn

FTA and VFLO 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.

VFLO in plain words

VFLO tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +42.3% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.39% a year. By its holdings filed for Jun 30, 2026, 84% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 50 positions, with the top ten at 30.8%. It sat 5.4% below its high of Sep 3, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FTA or VFLO?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and VFLO +42.3%.
Which is cheaper, FTA or VFLO?: VFLO is cheaper, by 0.19 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $19. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FTA and VFLO overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 84% of VFLO 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 ↗VFLO filings on SEC EDGAR ↗VFLO prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

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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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