ETF comparison
FVD vs IWM
Dividend vs US Small Cap.
First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund · iShares Russell 2000 ETF
Holdings overlap
19 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FVD and IWM would leave roughly 2.4% 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
IWM is 43 bps cheaper than FVD. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/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 FVD vs IWM.
Top shared holdings
19 shared in total| # | Holding | In FVD | In IWM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SOUTHWEST GAS HOLDINGS INC | 0.39% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 2 | PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY | 0.40% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 3 | TXNM ENERGY INC | 0.39% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 4 | SELECTIVE INSURANCE GROUP INC | 0.41% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 5 | BLACK HILLS CORP | 0.40% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 6 | NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORP | 0.40% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 7 | ONE GAS INC | 0.39% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 8 | SPIRE INC (US) | 0.40% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 9 | NORTHWESTERN ENERGY GROUP INC | 0.40% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 10 | FRANKLIN ELECTRIC CO INC | 0.40% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 11 | AVISTA CORP | 0.40% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 12 | AMERICAN STATES WATER COMPANY | 0.41% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in FVD
232 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%
Only in IWM
1,995 total- Moog, Inc. 0.38%
- Hut 8 Corp. 0.37%
- Viasat, Inc. 0.35%
- BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. 0.35%
- Cytokinetics, Inc. 0.35%
- MaxLinear, Inc. 0.34%
- Argan, Inc. 0.34%
- UMB Financial Corp. 0.33%
- JFrog Ltd. 0.31%
- Riot Platforms, Inc. 0.30%
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- FVD vs DEM · WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund 0.0%
- FVD vs DGS · WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend Fund 0.0%
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- IWM vs ESGV · Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF 2.4%
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- IWM vs AVLV · Avantis US Large Cap Value ETF 1.6%
- IWM vs PEY · Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF 1.6%
- IWM vs FBCG · Fidelity Blue Chip Growth ETF 1.5%
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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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