ETF comparison
FDL vs VTI
Dividend vs US Total Market.
First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
99 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FDL and VTI 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
VTI 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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
99 shared in total| # | Holding | In FDL | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHEVRON CORP | 7.43% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 2 | PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC | 6.06% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 3 | PEPSICO INC | 4.84% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 4 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC | 7.17% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 5 | PFIZER INC | 5.91% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 6 | ALTRIA GROUP INC | 4.64% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 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% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 11 | US BANCORP | 2.27% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 12 | COMCAST CORP | 3.13% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
Only in FDL
2 total- AMCOR PLC 0.89%
- DREYFUS GOVERNMENT CASH MANAGEMENT FUNDS 0.04%
Only in VTI
3,405 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.36%
- Apple Inc 5.87%
- Microsoft Corp 3.83%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Broadcom Inc 2.47%
- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.71%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
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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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