ETF comparison
FVD vs VIGI
Both Dividend.
First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund · Vanguard International Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
5 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FVD and VIGI would leave roughly 2.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VIGI 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 VIGI.
Top shared holdings
5 shared in total| # | Holding | In FVD | In VIGI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canadian National Railway Company | 0.43% | 1.09% | 0.43% |
| 2 | Fortis Inc | 0.42% | 0.52% | 0.42% |
| 3 | Rydex Series Funds | 0.42% | 4.27% | 0.42% |
| 4 | The Toronto-Dominion Bank | 0.42% | 3.25% | 0.42% |
| 5 | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | 0.41% | 1.87% | 0.41% |
Only in FVD
232 total- Entergy Corporation 0.46%
- Rio Tinto PLC 0.46%
- Sanofi SA 0.45%
- America Movil S.A.B. de C.V. 0.45%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.45%
- Landstar System Inc. 0.45%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company 0.45%
- GSK plc 0.44%
- AbbVie Inc. 0.44%
- The Campbells Co. 0.44%
Only in VIGI
341 total- Nestle SA 3.86%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 3.84%
- Novartis AG 3.55%
- Roche Holding AG 3.34%
- Schneider Electric SE 3.10%
- SAP SE 3.08%
- Iberdrola SA 2.62%
- Hitachi Ltd 2.62%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc 2.45%
- Novo Nordisk A/S 2.44%
Open FVD or VIGI at a brokerage
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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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