ETF comparison
DGS vs FVD
Both Dividend.
WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend Fund · First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGS and FVD would leave roughly 0.0% 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
DGS is 4 bps cheaper than FVD. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/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 DGS vs FVD.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in DGS
1,010 total- INNOLUX CORP 3.24%
- GROWTHPOINT PROPERTIES LTD 1.22%
- POWERTECH TECHNOLOGY INC 1.16%
- BANCO DEL BAJIO SA 0.97%
- OLD MUTUAL LTD 0.92%
- WPG HOLDINGS LTD 0.76%
- TRANSMISSORA ALIANCA DE ENERGIA ELETRICA SA 0.73%
- GRUPO AEROPORTUARIO DEL CENTRO SAB DE CV 0.72%
- REDEFINE PROPERTIES LTD 0.70%
- ALIOR BANK SA 0.69%
Only in FVD
251 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%
- COMCAST CORP 0.43%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.43%
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- DGS vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with FVD
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- FVD vs SDY · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF 33.8%
- FVD vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 30.6%
- FVD vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 29.5%
- FVD vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 29.0%
- FVD vs DTD · WisdomTree U.S. Total Dividend Fund 27.4%
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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