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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FVD returned +6.6% and SMIG +9.7%.

Which is cheaper, FVD or SMIG?

SMIG is cheaper, by 0.02 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $2. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 63% of FVD and 35% of SMIG by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FVD vs SMIG: how they differ

FVD and SMIG hold 7% of their weight in the same names, and SMIG returned +9.7% over the year. First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund and Bahl & Gaynor Small/Mid Cap Income Growth ETF.

SMIG costs 0.02 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 3.1 points; FVD is 5.2 times larger.

	FVD	SMIG
Expense ratio	0.62%	0.60%
Net assets, FVD as of Oct 9, 2026 and SMIG as of Jun 30, 2026	$7.6bn	$1.5bn
Total return, 1 year	+6.6%	+9.7%
Holdings in common	7%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	4.5%	42.3%
Below its high	6.1%, high on Aug 24, 2026	6.4%, high on Aug 14, 2026

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

+6.6%

FVD total return, 1 year

+9.7%

SMIG total return, 1 year

0.62%

FVD expense ratio

0.60%

SMIG expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FVD and SMIG hold 7% 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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7% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FVD SMIG

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. 0.47% 1.57%

MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. (Class A) 0.45% 1.42%

Hubbell Incorporated 0.44% 4.01%

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated 0.44% 2.79%

Alliant Energy Corporation 0.43% 3.05%

Atmos Energy Corporation 0.43% 1.16%

CMS Energy Corporation 0.43% 1.76%

Amdocs Limited 0.42% 1.03%

American Financial Group, Inc. 0.42% 2.16%

Avery Dennison Corporation 0.42% 0.90%

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. 0.42% 0.67%

NiSource Inc. 0.42% 3.30%

Only in FVD

Accenture plc 0.47%

Amgen Inc. 0.45%

Black Hills Corporation 0.45%

Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.45%

Emerson Electric Co. 0.45%

ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 0.45%

Linde Plc 0.45%

NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc. 0.45%

Only in SMIG

Silicon Motion Technology Corp 6.66%

Targa Resources Corp 4.89%

Victory Capital Holdings Inc 4.30%

DT Midstream Inc 4.19%

Gildan Activewear Inc 3.78%

Evercore Inc 3.17%

First Financial Bancorp 2.99%

American Healthcare REIT Inc 2.97%

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On the same fields

FVD

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund

SMIG

Bahl & Gaynor Small/Mid Cap Income Growth ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust Bahl & Gaynor

What it is Tracks an index Actively managed

Total return, 1 year +6.6% +9.7%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 −10.7 pts −7.6 pts

Expense ratio 0.62% 0.60%

Already in the S&P 500 62.7% 35.4%

Holdings 239 38

Net assets, FVD as of Oct 9, 2026 and SMIG as of Jun 30, 2026 $7.6bn $1.5bn

FVD and SMIG 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.

SMIG in plain words

SMIG is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +9.7% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.60% a year. By its holdings filed for Jun 30, 2026, 35% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 38 positions, with the top ten at 42.3%. It sat 6.4% below its high of Aug 14, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FVD or SMIG?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FVD returned +6.6% and SMIG +9.7%.
Which is cheaper, FVD or SMIG?: SMIG is cheaper, by 0.02 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $2. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FVD and SMIG overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 63% of FVD and 35% of SMIG 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 ↗SMIG filings on SEC EDGAR ↗SMIG 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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