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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and VOE +19.3%.

Which is cheaper, FTA or VOE?

VOE is cheaper, by 0.53 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $53. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 96% of VOE by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FTA vs VOE: how they differ

FTA and VOE hold 40% of their weight in the same names. First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund and Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF.

VOE costs 0.53 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 0.5 points; VOE is 16.9 times larger.

	FTA	VOE
Expense ratio	0.58%	0.05%
Net assets, FTA as of Oct 9, 2026 and VOE as of Sep 30, 2026	$1.4bn	$22.8bn
Total return, 1 year	+19.8%	+19.3%
Holdings in common	40%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	9.5%	13.9%
Below its high	6.0%, high on Aug 24, 2026	3.7%, high on Aug 14, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Aug 31, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

+19.8%

FTA total return, 1 year

+19.3%

VOE total return, 1 year

0.58%

FTA expense ratio

0.05%

VOE expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FTA and VOE hold 40% 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 Aug 31, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

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Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FTA VOE

Devon Energy Corporation 0.92% 0.93%

The Allstate Corporation 0.90% 1.10%

General Motors Company 0.75% 1.29%

Occidental Petroleum Corporation 0.95% 0.74%

Xcel Energy Inc. 0.73% 0.78%

Exelon Corporation 0.72% 0.74%

Roper Technologies, Inc. 0.73% 0.71%

CRH Plc 0.69% 1.04%

Delta Air Lines, Inc. 0.69% 0.81%

American International Group, Inc. 0.91% 0.66%

Diamondback Energy, Inc. 0.73% 0.65%

Consolidated Edison, Inc. 0.73% 0.65%

Only in FTA

HF Sinclair Corp. 0.99%

Ovintiv Inc. 0.97%

PTC Inc. 0.97%

Permian Resources Corp. 0.95%

Carnival Corporation Ltd. 0.94%

ConocoPhillips 0.94%

EOG Resources, Inc. 0.94%

Expand Energy Corporation 0.92%

Only in VOE

Cummins Inc 1.29%

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co 1.15%

Warner Bros Discovery Inc 1.12%

Arthur J Gallagher & Co 1.11%

Newmont Corp 1.11%

Simon Property Group Inc 1.08%

PACCAR Inc 1.08%

Digital Realty Trust Inc 1.08%

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On the same fields

FTA

First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund

VOE

Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust Vanguard

What it is Tracks an index Tracks an index of Mid-Cap Value

Total return, 1 year +19.8% +19.3%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +2.5 pts +2.1 pts

Expense ratio 0.58% 0.05%

Already in the S&P 500 93.0% 96.0%

Holdings 187 170

Net assets, FTA as of Oct 9, 2026 and VOE as of Sep 30, 2026 $1.4bn $22.8bn

FTA and VOE 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.

VOE in plain words

VOE tracks an index of Mid-Cap Value. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +19.3% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.05% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer as of Aug 31, 2026, 96% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 170 positions, with the top ten at 13.9%. It sat 3.7% below its high of Aug 14, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FTA or VOE?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTA returned +19.8% and VOE +19.3%.
Which is cheaper, FTA or VOE?: VOE is cheaper, by 0.53 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $53. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FTA and VOE overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 93% of FTA and 96% of VOE 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 ↗VOE filings on SEC EDGAR ↗VOE prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Vanguard page for VOE ↗

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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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