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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FVD returned +6.6% and RSPA +12.6%.

Which is cheaper, FVD or RSPA?

RSPA is cheaper, by 0.33 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $33. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 63% of FVD and 74% of RSPA by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FVD vs RSPA: how they differ

FVD and RSPA hold 23% of their weight in the same names, and RSPA returned +12.6% over the year. First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund and Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Income Advantage ETF.

RSPA costs 0.33 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 6.0 points; FVD is 6.3 times larger.

	FVD	RSPA
Expense ratio	0.62%	0.29%
Net assets	$7.6bn	$1.2bn
Total return, 1 year	+6.6%	+12.6%
Holdings in common	23%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	4.5%	4.2%
Below its high	6.1%, 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.

+6.6%

FVD total return, 1 year

+12.6%

RSPA total return, 1 year

0.62%

FVD expense ratio

0.29%

RSPA expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FVD and RSPA hold 23% 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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23% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FVD RSPA

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 0.40% 0.43%

Royal Bank of Canada 0.39% 0.42%

The Toronto-Dominion Bank 0.39% 0.55%

Accenture plc 0.47% 0.18%

The TJX Companies, Inc. 0.45% 0.17%

Philip Morris International Inc. 0.45% 0.16%

AbbVie Inc. 0.44% 0.16%

Altria Group, Inc. 0.44% 0.16%

Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.45% 0.16%

Emerson Electric Co. 0.45% 0.16%

The Procter & Gamble Company 0.44% 0.16%

TE Connectivity Plc 0.44% 0.16%

Only in FVD

Black Hills Corporation 0.45%

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

NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc. 0.45%

Shell plc (ADR) 0.45%

Coca-Cola European Partners Plc 0.44%

IDACORP, Inc. 0.44%

OGE Energy Corp. 0.44%

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated 0.44%

Only in RSPA

Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.61%

Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.43%

Wells Fargo & Co 0.39%

JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.36%

Barclays Bank PLC 0.36%

Mizuho Financial Group Inc 0.35%

Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.32%

JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.31%

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On the same fields

FVD

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index 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 +6.6% +12.6%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 −10.7 pts −4.7 pts

Expense ratio 0.62% 0.29%

Already in the S&P 500 62.7% 74.0%

Holdings 239 520

Net assets $7.6bn $1.2bn

FVD and RSPA 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.

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, FVD or RSPA?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FVD returned +6.6% and RSPA +12.6%.
Which is cheaper, FVD or RSPA?: RSPA is cheaper, by 0.33 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $33. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FVD and RSPA overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 63% of FVD and 74% of RSPA 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 ↗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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