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RDVY vs THRO: Differences, Returns & Fees

RDVY and THRO hold 24% of their weight in the same names, and RDVY returned +20.2% over the year. Net assets on Oct 9, 2026: $25.5bn for First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF and $7.5bn for iShares U.S. Thematic Rotation Active ETF.

RDVY costs 0.10 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 1.9 points; RDVY is 3.4 times larger.

RDVY vs THRO: Differences, Returns & Fees
RDVYTHRO
Expense ratio0.47%0.57%
Net assets$25.5bn$7.5bn
Total return, 1 year+20.2%+18.3%
What it tracksNasdaq US Rising Dividend Achievers IndexNo index, actively managed
Holdings in common24%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund23.2%43.5%
Below its high4.9%, high on Aug 13, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 9, 2026.

+20.2%
RDVY total return, 1 year
+18.3%
THRO total return, 1 year
0.47%
RDVY expense ratio
0.57%
THRO expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, RDVY and THRO hold 24% 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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24% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding RDVY THRO
Microsoft Corporation 2.23% 6.41%
NVIDIA Corporation 2.23% 8.35%
Micron Technology, Inc. 2.21% 2.48%
Visa Inc. (Class A) 2.16% 2.01%
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.00% 2.57%
Alphabet Inc. (Class A) 1.98% 3.85%
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Class A) 2.20% 1.93%
Apple Inc. 1.66% 8.22%
Applied Materials, Inc. 2.62% 1.52%
Bank of America Corporation 1.91% 0.88%
Lam Research Corporation 2.55% 0.70%
Salesforce, Inc. 1.56% 0.63%
Only in RDVY
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. 2.13%
Expedia Group, Inc. 2.09%
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation 2.06%
Chubb Limited 2.02%
U.S. Bancorp 1.98%
Cincinnati Financial Corporation 1.89%
Synchrony Financial 1.88%
Regions Financial Corporation 1.85%
Only in THRO
AMAZON.COM INC 4.63%
EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.56%
WALMART 2.32%
CATERPILLAR INC 2.15%
BROADCOM INC 2.13%
JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2.04%
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES 1.90%
ALPHABET CLASS C 1.90%

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On the same fields

RDVY
First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF
THRO
iShares U.S. Thematic Rotation Active ETF
Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF
Issuer First Trust iShares
What it is Tracks an index of Rising Dividend Achievers Actively managed
Total return, 1 year +20.2% +18.3%
Its benchmark over the same days not published +17.3% (VOO)
Gap to its benchmark not available +1.0 pts vs VOO
Expense ratio 0.47% 0.57%
Already in the S&P 500 94.3% 92.8%
Holdings 72 247
Net assets $25.5bn $7.5bn

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

About RDVY

RDVY tracks an index of Rising Dividend Achievers. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +20.2% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.47% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 94% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 72 positions, with the top ten at 23.2%. It sat 4.9% below its high of Aug 13, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

About THRO

THRO is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +18.3% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.57% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 93% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 247 positions, with the top ten at 43.5%.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, RDVY or THRO?
In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, RDVY returned +20.2% and THRO +18.3%.
Which is cheaper, RDVY or THRO?
RDVY is cheaper, by 0.10 percentage points a year. That is about $10 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do RDVY and THRO overlap with the S&P 500?
By their latest filed holdings, 94% of RDVY and 93% of THRO by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.
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Where these figures came from
RDVY filings on SEC EDGAR ↗RDVY prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for RDVY ↗THRO filings on SEC EDGAR ↗THRO prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗iShares page for THRO ↗

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How this is computed

Overlap adds up the smaller of the two weights for each security both funds hold.

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