ETF comparison
DGRO vs FVD
Both Dividend.
iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF · First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund
Holdings overlap
139 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGRO and FVD would leave roughly 29.0% 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
DGRO is 54 bps cheaper than FVD. On a $100,000 position that's about $540/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 DGRO vs FVD.
Top shared holdings
139 shared in total| # | Holding | In DGRO | In FVD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP | 1.08% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 2 | MERCK & COMPANY INC | 1.91% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 3 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 3.07% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 4 | ABBVIE INC | 2.96% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 5 | HOME DEPOT INC (THE) | 2.14% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 6 | AMGEN INC | 1.30% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 7 | AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY INC | 0.45% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 8 | UNION PACIFIC CORP | 0.77% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 9 | PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC | 2.13% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 10 | AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC | 0.68% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 11 | RTX CORP | 1.01% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 12 | MARSH & MCLENNAN COMPANIES INC | 0.43% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
Only in DGRO
251 total- MICROSOFT CORP 3.24%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.87%
- APPLE INC 2.86%
- BROADCOM INC 2.55%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC 1.76%
- WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 1.27%
- ELI LILLY & COMPANY 1.19%
- VISA INC 1.10%
- CONOCOPHILLIPS 0.89%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.87%
Only in FVD
112 total- REYNOLDS CONSUMER PRODUCTS INC 0.44%
- SONOCO PRODUCTS COMPANY 0.44%
- LABCORP HOLDINGS INC 0.43%
- COMCAST CORP 0.43%
- KIMBERLY CLARK CORP 0.43%
- MARZETTI COMPANY (THE) 0.43%
- CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP 0.42%
- BRADY CORP 0.42%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.42%
- WELLTOWER INC 0.42%
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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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