ETF comparison
CGDV vs FVD
Both Dividend.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund
Holdings overlap
20 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and FVD would leave roughly 8.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
CGDV is 29 bps cheaper than FVD. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/yr more in fees for FVD.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with CGDV vs FVD.
Top shared holdings
20 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In FVD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Comcast Corp | 1.75% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 2 | AbbVie Inc | 1.35% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 3 | Amgen Inc | 0.79% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 4 | Union Pacific Corp | 2.12% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 5 | Philip Morris International Inc | 1.54% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 6 | RTX Corp | 2.82% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 7 | Air Products and Chemicals Inc | 0.74% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 8 | Altria Group Inc | 1.00% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 9 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.75% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 10 | General Dynamics Corp | 0.83% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 11 | NextEra Energy Inc | 1.02% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 12 | Illinois Tool Works Inc | 0.82% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
Only in CGDV
32 total- Microsoft Corp 5.81%
- NVIDIA Corp 5.66%
- Broadcom Inc 5.16%
- Alphabet Inc 3.59%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.33%
- Eli Lilly & Co 3.15%
- Applied Materials Inc 3.12%
- General Electric Co 3.08%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 2.83%
- British American Tobacco PLC 2.66%
Only in FVD
231 total- REYNOLDS CONSUMER PRODUCTS INC 0.44%
- RLI CORP 0.44%
- SONOCO PRODUCTS COMPANY 0.44%
- JACK HENRY & ASSOCIATES INC 0.44%
- INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 0.43%
- MERCK & COMPANY INC 0.43%
- BROWN & BROWN INC 0.43%
- LABCORP HOLDINGS INC 0.43%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.43%
- ARTHUR J. GALLAGHER & COMPANY 0.43%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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