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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FVD returned +6.6% and VFMF +29.9%.

Which is cheaper, FVD or VFMF?

VFMF is cheaper, by 0.44 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $44. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 63% of FVD and 47% of VFMF by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FVD vs VFMF: how they differ

FVD and VFMF hold 13% of their weight in the same names, and VFMF returned +29.9% over the year. First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund and Vanguard U.S. Multifactor ETF.

VFMF costs 0.44 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 23.3 points; FVD is 6.9 times larger.

	FVD	VFMF
Expense ratio	0.62%	0.18%
Net assets, FVD as of Oct 9, 2026 and VFMF as of Sep 30, 2026	$7.6bn	$1.1bn
Total return, 1 year	+6.6%	+29.9%
Holdings in common	13%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	4.5%	8.9%
Below its high	6.1%, high on Aug 24, 2026

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

+6.6%

FVD total return, 1 year

+29.9%

VFMF total return, 1 year

0.62%

FVD expense ratio

0.18%

VFMF expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FVD and VFMF hold 13% 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 May 31, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

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Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FVD VFMF

Amgen Inc. 0.45% 0.75%

Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.45% 0.83%

AbbVie Inc. 0.44% 0.74%

Altria Group, Inc. 0.44% 0.83%

Pfizer Inc. 0.43% 0.52%

Gilead Sciences, Inc. 0.42% 0.73%

The Travelers Companies, Inc. 0.42% 0.83%

Cummins Inc. 0.41% 0.51%

Johnson & Johnson 0.41% 0.49%

Merck & Co., Inc. 0.41% 0.81%

PepsiCo, Inc. 0.41% 0.63%

Bank of America Corporation 0.40% 0.41%

Only in FVD

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. 0.47%

Black Hills Corporation 0.45%

Emerson Electric Co. 0.45%

ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 0.45%

Linde Plc 0.45%

NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc. 0.45%

Philip Morris International Inc. 0.45%

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation 0.45%

Only in VFMF

Micron Technology Inc 1.25%

Newmont Corp 0.89%

ConocoPhillips 0.86%

EOG Resources Inc 0.84%

Alphabet Inc 0.79%

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.77%

FedEx Corp 0.72%

CVS Health Corp 0.72%

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On the same fields

FVD

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund

VFMF

Vanguard U.S. Multifactor ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust Vanguard

What it is Tracks an index Actively managed

Total return, 1 year +6.6% +29.9%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 −10.7 pts +12.7 pts

Expense ratio 0.62% 0.18%

Already in the S&P 500 62.7% 46.9%

Holdings 239 613

Net assets, FVD as of Oct 9, 2026 and VFMF as of Sep 30, 2026 $7.6bn $1.1bn

FVD and VFMF 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.

VFMF in plain words

VFMF is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +29.9% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.18% a year. By its holdings filed for May 31, 2026, 47% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 613 positions, with the top ten at 8.9%.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FVD or VFMF?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FVD returned +6.6% and VFMF +29.9%.
Which is cheaper, FVD or VFMF?: VFMF is cheaper, by 0.44 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $44. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FVD and VFMF overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 63% of FVD and 47% of VFMF 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 ↗VFMF filings on SEC EDGAR ↗VFMF prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Vanguard page for VFMF ↗

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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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