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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, PEY returned +14.8% and VFMF +29.9%.

Which is cheaper, PEY or VFMF?

VFMF is cheaper, by 0.50 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $50. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 51% of PEY and 47% of VFMF by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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PEY vs VFMF: how they differ

PEY and VFMF hold 4% of their weight in the same names, and VFMF returned +29.9% over the year. Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF and Vanguard U.S. Multifactor ETF.

VFMF costs 0.50 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 15.1 points.

	PEY	VFMF
Expense ratio	0.68%	0.18%
Net assets, PEY as of Oct 9, 2026 and VFMF as of Sep 30, 2026	$1.1bn	$1.1bn
Total return, 1 year	+14.8%	+29.9%
Holdings in common	4%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	29.6%	8.9%
Below its high	8.8%, high on Aug 26, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated May 31, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026.

+14.8%

PEY total return, 1 year

+29.9%

VFMF total return, 1 year

0.68%

PEY expense ratio

0.18%

VFMF expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, PEY and VFMF hold 4% 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 8, 2026.

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Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding PEY VFMF

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 1.60% 0.88%

Altria Group Inc 3.09% 0.83%

Verizon Communications Inc 2.45% 0.62%

Pfizer Inc 2.79% 0.52%

Chevron Corp 1.66% 0.31%

Best Buy Co Inc 2.49% 0.30%

Target Corp 1.30% 0.24%

Sonoco Products Co 1.61% 0.20%

Robert Half Inc 1.85% 0.14%

Polaris Inc 1.62% 0.13%

John Wiley & Sons Inc 1.22% 0.12%

LyondellBasell Industries NV 2.32% 0.07%

Only in PEY

Perrigo Co PLC 3.71%

Flowers Foods Inc 3.67%

Universal Corp/VA 3.25%

Edison International 3.10%

United Parcel Service Inc 2.69%

Avista Corp 2.39%

Main Street Capital Corp 2.32%

AES Corp/The 2.29%

Only in VFMF

Micron Technology Inc 1.25%

Newmont Corp 0.89%

ConocoPhillips 0.86%

Bank of New York Mellon Corp/The 0.86%

EOG Resources Inc 0.84%

Travelers Cos Inc/The 0.83%

Cisco Systems Inc 0.83%

Merck & Co Inc 0.81%

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On the same fields

PEY

Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF

VFMF

Vanguard U.S. Multifactor ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer Invesco Vanguard

What it is Tracks an index Actively managed

Total return, 1 year +14.8% +29.9%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 −2.5 pts +12.7 pts

Expense ratio 0.68% 0.18%

Already in the S&P 500 50.6% 46.9%

Holdings 52 613

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

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

PEY in plain words

PEY tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +14.8% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.68% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 51% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 52 positions, with the top ten at 29.6%. It sat 8.8% below its high of Aug 26, 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, PEY or VFMF?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, PEY returned +14.8% and VFMF +29.9%.
Which is cheaper, PEY or VFMF?: VFMF is cheaper, by 0.50 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $50. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do PEY and VFMF overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 51% of PEY and 47% of VFMF by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Where these figures came from

PEY filings on SEC EDGAR ↗PEY prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Invesco page for PEY ↗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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