ETF comparison
FVD vs SPYD
Both Dividend.
First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF
Holdings overlap
36 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FVD and SPYD would leave roughly 14.5% 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
SPYD is 55 bps cheaper than FVD. On a $100,000 position that's about $550/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 SPYD.
Top shared holdings
36 shared in total| # | Holding | In FVD | In SPYD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | COMCAST CORP | 0.43% | 1.01% | 0.43% |
| 2 | KIMBERLY CLARK CORP | 0.43% | 1.31% | 0.43% |
| 3 | KRAFT HEINZ COMPANY (THE) | 0.42% | 1.26% | 0.42% |
| 4 | KENVUE INC | 0.42% | 1.31% | 0.42% |
| 5 | AMCOR PLC | 0.42% | 1.22% | 0.42% |
| 6 | INVITATION HOMES INC | 0.41% | 1.31% | 0.41% |
| 7 | UDR INC | 0.41% | 1.27% | 0.41% |
| 8 | ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST INC | 0.41% | 1.35% | 0.41% |
| 9 | BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY | 0.41% | 1.26% | 0.41% |
| 10 | T. ROWE PRICE GROUP INC | 0.41% | 1.28% | 0.41% |
| 11 | MID-AMERICA APARTMENT COMMUNITIES INC | 0.41% | 1.23% | 0.41% |
| 12 | CAMDEN PROPERTY TRUST | 0.41% | 1.26% | 0.41% |
Only in FVD
215 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%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.43%
- ARTHUR J. GALLAGHER & COMPANY 0.43%
Only in SPYD
42 total- Iron Mountain Inc 1.61%
- Franklin Resources Inc 1.56%
- CVS Health Corp 1.52%
- Host Hotels & Resorts Inc 1.52%
- Edison International 1.47%
- Target Corp 1.47%
- APA Corp 1.47%
- Viatris Inc 1.45%
- Simon Property Group Inc 1.44%
- EOG Resources Inc 1.43%
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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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