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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FVD returned +6.6% and SDY +10.0%.

Which is cheaper, FVD or SDY?

SDY 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 SDY overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 63% of FVD and 84% of SDY by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FVD vs SDY: how they differ

FVD and SDY hold 33% of their weight in the same names, and SDY returned +10.0% over the year. First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund and State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF.

SDY costs 0.27 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 3.4 points; SDY is 2.7 times larger.

	FVD	SDY
Expense ratio	0.62%	0.35%
Net assets, FVD as of Oct 9, 2026 and SDY as of Oct 8, 2026	$7.6bn	$20.8bn
Total return, 1 year	+6.6%	+10.0%
Holdings in common	33%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	4.5%	20.5%
Below its high	6.1%, high on Aug 24, 2026	5.8%, high on Aug 24, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 8, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

+6.6%

FVD total return, 1 year

+10.0%

SDY total return, 1 year

0.62%

FVD expense ratio

0.35%

SDY expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FVD and SDY hold 33% 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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33% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FVD SDY

Accenture plc 0.47% 3.49%

Emerson Electric Co. 0.45% 0.79%

ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 0.45% 1.47%

Linde Plc 0.45% 0.52%

AbbVie Inc. 0.44% 1.33%

Chevron Corporation 0.44% 2.11%

Ecolab Inc. 0.44% 0.50%

Nordson Corporation 0.44% 0.55%

Steris Plc 0.44% 0.54%

The Procter & Gamble Company 0.44% 1.34%

Alliant Energy Corporation 0.43% 0.77%

Atmos Energy Corporation 0.43% 0.94%

Only in FVD

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. 0.47%

Amgen Inc. 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%

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation 0.45%

Shell plc (ADR) 0.45%

Only in SDY

TARGET CORP 1.76%

NIKE INC CL B 1.47%

INTL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 1.19%

ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO 1.15%

QUALCOMM INC 0.90%

EDISON INTERNATIONAL 0.85%

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC 0.84%

MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC 0.80%

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On the same fields

FVD

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund

SDY

State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust State Street

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

Total return, 1 year +6.6% +10.0%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 −10.7 pts −7.3 pts

Expense ratio 0.62% 0.35%

Already in the S&P 500 62.7% 84.4%

Holdings 239 156

Net assets, FVD as of Oct 9, 2026 and SDY as of Oct 8, 2026 $7.6bn $20.8bn

FVD and SDY 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.

SDY in plain words

SDY tracks the S&P Dividend. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +10.0% 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 8, 2026, 84% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 156 positions, with the top ten at 20.5%. It sat 5.8% below its high of Aug 24, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FVD or SDY?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FVD returned +6.6% and SDY +10.0%.
Which is cheaper, FVD or SDY?: SDY 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 SDY overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 63% of FVD and 84% of SDY 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 ↗SDY filings on SEC EDGAR ↗SDY prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗State Street website ↗

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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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