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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FXO returned +7.9% and NOBL +9.8%.

Which is cheaper, FXO or NOBL?

NOBL is cheaper, by 0.25 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $25. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 41% of FXO and 100% of NOBL by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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FXO vs NOBL: how they differ

FXO and NOBL hold 7% of their weight in the same names, and NOBL returned +9.8% over the year. First Trust Financials AlphaDEX Fund and ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF.

NOBL costs 0.25 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 1.9 points; NOBL is 10.8 times larger.

	FXO	NOBL
Expense ratio	0.60%	0.35%
Net assets	$1.0bn	$11.2bn
Total return, 1 year	+7.9%	+9.8%
Holdings in common	7%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	17.1%	16.7%
Below its high	7.1%, high on Sep 3, 2026	6.3%, high on Aug 24, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 9, 2026.

+7.9%

FXO total return, 1 year

+9.8%

NOBL total return, 1 year

0.60%

FXO expense ratio

0.35%

NOBL expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FXO and NOBL 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 Oct 9, 2026.

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7% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FXO NOBL

Cincinnati Financial Corporation 1.67% 1.35%

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. 1.65% 1.34%

FactSet Research Systems Inc. 0.99% 1.73%

Chubb Limited 0.98% 1.47%

Aflac Incorporated 0.95% 1.37%

Brown & Brown, Inc. 0.32% 1.42%

S&P Global Inc. 0.32% 1.41%

Franklin Templeton, Inc. 0.31% 1.46%

Only in FXO

Chime Financial, Inc. (Class A) 1.84%

MGIC Investment Corporation 1.73%

The Hartford Insurance Group, Inc. 1.72%

RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. 1.70%

American International Group, Inc. 1.69%

Arch Capital Group Ltd. 1.69%

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Class B) 1.69%

Assured Guaranty Ltd. 1.68%

Only in NOBL

BECTON DICKINSON AND CO 1.78%

EMERSON ELECTRIC CO 1.71%

NORDSON CORP 1.67%

FASTENAL CO 1.66%

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING 1.65%

TARGET CORP 1.65%

CHEVRON CORP 1.63%

INTL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 1.63%

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On the same fields

FXO

First Trust Financials AlphaDEX 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 +7.9% +9.8%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 −9.3 pts −7.4 pts

Expense ratio 0.60% 0.35%

Already in the S&P 500 40.9% 99.7%

Holdings 105 69

Net assets $1.0bn $11.2bn

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

FXO in plain words

FXO tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +7.9% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.60% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 41% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 105 positions, with the top ten at 17.1%. It sat 7.1% below its high of Sep 3, 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, FXO or NOBL?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FXO returned +7.9% and NOBL +9.8%.
Which is cheaper, FXO or NOBL?: NOBL is cheaper, by 0.25 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $25. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FXO and NOBL overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 41% of FXO and 100% of NOBL by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Where these figures came from

FXO filings on SEC EDGAR ↗FXO prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for FXO ↗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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ETFIQ, FXO against NOBL, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/any/fxo-vs-nobl

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