ETF comparison
FDL vs ITOT
Dividend vs US Total Market.
First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
100 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FDL and ITOT would leave roughly 4.9% 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
ITOT is 40 bps cheaper than FDL. On a $100,000 position that's about $400/yr more in fees for FDL.
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 FDL vs ITOT.
Top shared holdings
100 shared in total| # | Holding | In FDL | In ITOT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHEVRON CORP | 7.43% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 2 | PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC | 6.06% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 3 | PEPSICO INC | 4.84% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 4 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC | 7.17% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 5 | PFIZER INC | 5.91% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 6 | ALTRIA GROUP INC | 4.64% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 7 | BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY | 3.43% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 8 | SOUTHERN COMPANY (THE) | 2.32% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 9 | MEDTRONIC PLC | 2.28% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 10 | DUKE ENERGY CORP | 2.21% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 11 | US BANCORP | 2.27% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 12 | BLACKSTONE INC | 2.31% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
Only in FDL
1 total- DREYFUS GOVERNMENT CASH MANAGEMENT FUNDS 0.04%
Only in ITOT
2,398 total- NVIDIA Corp. 6.63%
- Apple, Inc. 5.81%
- Microsoft Corp. 3.79%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 3.19%
- Alphabet, Inc. 2.86%
- Broadcom, Inc. 2.45%
- Alphabet, Inc. 2.29%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 1.78%
- Meta Platforms, Inc. 1.69%
- Tesla, Inc. 1.62%
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- ITOT vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 4.3%
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- ITOT vs SPHD · Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF 4.2%
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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