ETF comparison
FDL vs SPHD
Both Dividend.
First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund · Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF
Holdings overlap
33 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FDL and SPHD would leave roughly 37.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPHD is 13 bps cheaper than FDL. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/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 SPHD.
Top shared holdings
33 shared in total| # | Holding | In FDL | In SPHD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verizon Communications Inc. | 7.36% | 3.39% | 3.39% |
| 2 | Altria Group, Inc. | 4.45% | 3.18% | 3.18% |
| 3 | Pfizer Inc. | 6.48% | 2.93% | 2.93% |
| 4 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Company | 3.26% | 2.10% | 2.10% |
| 5 | CHEVRON CORP | 9.12% | 2.00% | 2.00% |
| 6 | Comcast Corporation | 2.82% | 1.85% | 1.85% |
| 7 | Oneok Inc. | 1.77% | 2.43% | 1.77% |
| 8 | Truist Financial Corp. | 1.64% | 1.66% | 1.64% |
| 9 | EOG Resources Inc. | 1.55% | 1.71% | 1.55% |
| 10 | Exxon Mobil Corp. | 11.05% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 11 | U.S. Bancorp. | 2.05% | 1.50% | 1.50% |
| 12 | Kinder Morgan, Inc. | 1.47% | 1.96% | 1.47% |
Only in FDL
54 total- Merck & Co., Inc 5.51%
- Pepsico Inc 4.76%
- United Parcel Service, Inc. 3.03%
- ConocoPhillips 2.97%
- CVS Health Corp 1.96%
- PNC Financial Services Group Inc. 1.77%
- Ford Motor Company 1.42%
- Target Corp. 1.33%
- American Electric Power Co, Inc. 1.24%
- Edison International 0.88%
Only in SPHD
17 total- Healthpeak Properties, Inc. 2.77%
- VICI Properties Inc. 2.66%
- Realty Income Corp. 2.46%
- Kimco Realty Corp. 2.23%
- Kimberly-Clark Corp. 2.21%
- Crown Castle Inc. 2.18%
- AT&T Inc. 2.12%
- Extra Space Storage Inc. 2.05%
- Public Storage 1.95%
- Dominion Energy, Inc. 1.88%
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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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