ETF comparison
FVD vs VB
Dividend vs US Small Cap.
First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
76 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FVD and VB would leave roughly 8.5% 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
VB is 59 bps cheaper than FVD. On a $100,000 position that's about $590/yr more in fees for FVD.
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Top shared holdings
76 shared in total| # | Holding | In FVD | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ATMOS ENERGY CORP | 0.40% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 2 | EVERGY INC | 0.40% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 3 | ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST INC | 0.41% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | INVITATION HOMES INC | 0.41% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 5 | KIMCO REALTY CORP | 0.40% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 6 | IDEX CORP | 0.39% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 7 | MID-AMERICA APARTMENT COMMUNITIES INC | 0.41% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 8 | W.P. CAREY INC | 0.39% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 9 | JACOBS SOLUTIONS INC | 0.41% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 10 | SUN COMMUNITIES INC | 0.40% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 11 | REGENCY CENTERS CORP | 0.40% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 12 | LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC | 0.38% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
Only in FVD
175 total- 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%
- ARTHUR J. GALLAGHER & COMPANY 0.43%
- QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INC 0.43%
- ABBVIE INC 0.43%
- KIMBERLY CLARK CORP 0.43%
Only in VB
1,233 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
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More comparisons with VB
- VB vs VONE · Vanguard Russell 1000 Index Fund ETF Shares 8.2%
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- VB vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 7.2%
- VB vs GSLC · Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF 7.1%
- VB vs VLUE · iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF 6.7%
- VB vs SCHX · Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF 6.7%
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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