Which returned more over the last year, FVD or NOBL?

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FVD returned +6.6% and NOBL +9.8%.

Which is cheaper, FVD or NOBL?

NOBL is cheaper, by 0.27 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $27. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do FVD and NOBL overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 63% of FVD and 100% of NOBL by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FVD vs NOBL: how they differ

FVD and NOBL hold 18% of their weight in the same names, and NOBL returned +9.8% over the year. First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund and ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF.

NOBL costs 0.27 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 3.2 points; NOBL is 1.5 times larger.

	FVD	NOBL
Expense ratio	0.62%	0.35%
Net assets	$7.6bn	$11.2bn
Total return, 1 year	+6.6%	+9.8%
Holdings in common	18%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	4.5%	16.7%
Below its high	6.1%, high on Aug 24, 2026	6.3%, high on Aug 24, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 9, 2026.

+6.6%

FVD total return, 1 year

+9.8%

NOBL total return, 1 year

0.62%

FVD expense ratio

0.35%

NOBL expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FVD and NOBL hold 18% 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 9, 2026.

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18% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FVD NOBL

Emerson Electric Co. 0.45% 1.71%

ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 0.45% 1.62%

Linde Plc 0.45% 1.41%

AbbVie Inc. 0.44% 1.62%

Chevron Corporation 0.44% 1.63%

Ecolab Inc. 0.44% 1.56%

Nordson Corporation 0.44% 1.67%

The Procter & Gamble Company 0.44% 1.50%

Atmos Energy Corporation 0.43% 1.34%

Becton, Dickinson and Company 0.43% 1.78%

Chubb Limited 0.43% 1.47%

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. 0.43% 1.49%

Only in FVD

Accenture plc 0.47%

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. 0.47%

Amgen Inc. 0.45%

Black Hills Corporation 0.45%

Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.45%

MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. (Class A) 0.45%

NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc. 0.45%

Philip Morris International Inc. 0.45%

Only in NOBL

FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC 1.73%

TARGET CORP 1.65%

INTL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 1.63%

EXPEDITORS INTL WASH INC 1.61%

ROPER TECHNOLOGIES INC 1.60%

CARDINAL HEALTH INC 1.59%

NUCOR CORP 1.57%

ERIE INDEMNITY COMPANY-CL A 1.56%

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On the same fields

FVD

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund

NOBL

ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust ProShares

What it is Tracks an index Tracks the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats

Total return, 1 year +6.6% +9.8%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 −10.7 pts −7.4 pts

Expense ratio 0.62% 0.35%

Already in the S&P 500 62.7% 99.7%

Holdings 239 69

Net assets $7.6bn $11.2bn

FVD and NOBL on the fields both publish, as of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

FVD in plain words

FVD tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +6.6% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.62% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 63% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 239 positions, with the top ten at 4.5%. It sat 6.1% below its high of Aug 24, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

NOBL in plain words

NOBL tracks the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +9.8% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.35% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 100% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 69 positions, with the top ten at 16.7%. It sat 6.3% below its high of Aug 24, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FVD or NOBL?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FVD returned +6.6% and NOBL +9.8%.
Which is cheaper, FVD or NOBL?: NOBL is cheaper, by 0.27 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $27. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FVD and NOBL overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 63% of FVD and 100% of NOBL by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Where these figures came from

FVD filings on SEC EDGAR ↗FVD prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for FVD ↗NOBL filings on SEC EDGAR ↗NOBL prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗ProShares page for NOBL ↗

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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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