Which returned more over the last year, RSPA or SDY?

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, RSPA returned +12.6% and SDY +10.0%.

Which is cheaper, RSPA or SDY?

RSPA is cheaper, by 0.06 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $6. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do RSPA and SDY overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 74% of RSPA and 84% of SDY by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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RSPA vs SDY: how they differ

RSPA and SDY hold 15% of their weight in the same names, and RSPA returned +12.6% over the year. Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Income Advantage ETF and State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF.

RSPA costs 0.06 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 2.6 points; SDY is 17.1 times larger.

	RSPA	SDY
Expense ratio	0.29%	0.35%
Net assets, RSPA as of Oct 9, 2026 and SDY as of Oct 8, 2026	$1.2bn	$20.8bn
Total return, 1 year	+12.6%	+10.0%
Holdings in common	15%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	4.2%	20.5%
Below its high	3.2%, high on Aug 26, 2026	5.8%, high on Aug 24, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 8, 2026.

+12.6%

RSPA total return, 1 year

+10.0%

SDY total return, 1 year

0.29%

RSPA expense ratio

0.35%

SDY expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, RSPA and SDY hold 15% 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 8, 2026.

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15% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding RSPA SDY

Accenture PLC 0.18% 3.49%

Analog Devices Inc 0.17% 0.52%

Texas Instruments Inc 0.17% 0.84%

AbbVie Inc 0.16% 1.33%

Microsoft Corp 0.16% 0.59%

Emerson Electric Co 0.16% 0.79%

Procter & Gamble Co/The 0.16% 1.34%

Costco Wholesale Corp 0.16% 0.29%

Nordson Corp 0.16% 0.55%

Walmart Inc 0.16% 0.40%

Ecolab Inc 0.16% 0.50%

Fastenal Co 0.16% 1.00%

Only in RSPA

Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.61%

Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.55%

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 0.43%

Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.43%

Royal Bank of Canada 0.42%

Wells Fargo & Co 0.39%

JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.36%

Barclays Bank PLC 0.36%

Only in SDY

GRACO INC 0.58%

RPM INTERNATIONAL INC 0.58%

LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS 0.55%

CARLISLE COS INC 0.53%

EQUITY LIFESTYLE PROPERTIES 0.49%

ROYAL GOLD INC 0.49%

ESSENTIAL UTILITIES INC 0.47%

DONALDSON CO INC 0.44%

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On the same fields

RSPA

Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Income Advantage ETF

SDY

State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer Invesco State Street

What it is Actively managed Tracks the S&P Dividend

Total return, 1 year +12.6% +10.0%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 −4.7 pts −7.3 pts

Expense ratio 0.29% 0.35%

Already in the S&P 500 74.0% 84.4%

Holdings 520 156

Net assets, RSPA as of Oct 9, 2026 and SDY as of Oct 8, 2026 $1.2bn $20.8bn

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

RSPA in plain words

RSPA is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +12.6% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.29% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026, 74% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 520 positions, with the top ten at 4.2%. It sat 3.2% below its high of Aug 26, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

SDY in plain words

SDY tracks the S&P Dividend. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +10.0% 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 8, 2026, 84% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 156 positions, with the top ten at 20.5%. It sat 5.8% below its high of Aug 24, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, RSPA or SDY?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, RSPA returned +12.6% and SDY +10.0%.
Which is cheaper, RSPA or SDY?: RSPA is cheaper, by 0.06 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $6. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do RSPA and SDY overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 74% of RSPA and 84% of SDY by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Where these figures came from

RSPA filings on SEC EDGAR ↗RSPA prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Invesco page for RSPA ↗SDY filings on SEC EDGAR ↗SDY prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗State Street website ↗

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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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