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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, RSPA returned +12.6% and VFMF +29.9%.

Which is cheaper, RSPA or VFMF?

VFMF is cheaper, by 0.11 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $11. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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

By their latest filed holdings, 74% of RSPA and 47% of VFMF by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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RSPA vs VFMF: how they differ

RSPA and VFMF hold 20% of their weight in the same names, and VFMF returned +29.9% over the year. Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Income Advantage ETF and Vanguard U.S. Multifactor ETF.

VFMF costs 0.11 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 17.3 points; RSPA is 1.1 times larger.

	RSPA	VFMF
Expense ratio	0.29%	0.18%
Net assets, RSPA as of Oct 9, 2026 and VFMF as of Sep 30, 2026	$1.2bn	$1.1bn
Total return, 1 year	+12.6%	+29.9%
Holdings in common	20%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	4.2%	8.9%
Below its high	3.2%, high on Aug 26, 2026

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

+12.6%

RSPA total return, 1 year

+29.9%

VFMF total return, 1 year

0.29%

RSPA expense ratio

0.18%

VFMF expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, RSPA and VFMF hold 20% 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 RSPA VFMF

Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.61% 0.52%

Wells Fargo & Co 0.39% 0.61%

JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.36% 0.45%

Illumina Inc 0.19% 0.23%

Accenture PLC 0.18% 0.24%

Marathon Petroleum Corp 0.17% 0.21%

Valero Energy Corp 0.17% 0.59%

Arista Networks Inc 0.17% 0.17%

Applied Materials Inc 0.16% 0.35%

Kroger Co/The 0.16% 0.23%

AbbVie Inc 0.16% 0.74%

Dell Technologies Inc 0.16% 0.71%

Only in RSPA

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%

Barclays Bank PLC 0.36%

Mizuho Financial Group Inc 0.35%

Toronto-Dominion Bank/The 0.32%

JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.31%

Only in VFMF

Exxon Mobil Corp 0.59%

Weatherford International PLC 0.35%

Popular Inc 0.35%

BorgWarner Inc 0.34%

Ryder System Inc 0.33%

Crocs Inc 0.33%

Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC 0.30%

Millicom International Cellular SA 0.30%

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On the same fields

RSPA

Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Income Advantage ETF

VFMF

Vanguard U.S. Multifactor ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer Invesco Vanguard

What it is Actively managed Actively managed

Total return, 1 year +12.6% +29.9%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 −4.7 pts +12.7 pts

Expense ratio 0.29% 0.18%

Already in the S&P 500 74.0% 46.9%

Holdings 520 613

Net assets, RSPA as of Oct 9, 2026 and VFMF as of Sep 30, 2026 $1.2bn $1.1bn

RSPA and VFMF 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.

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, RSPA or VFMF?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, RSPA returned +12.6% and VFMF +29.9%.
Which is cheaper, RSPA or VFMF?: VFMF is cheaper, by 0.11 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $11. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do RSPA and VFMF overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 74% of RSPA and 47% of VFMF 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 ↗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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