ETF comparison
FVD vs VIGI
Both Dividend.
First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund · Vanguard International Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
6 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.
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
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
6 shared in total| # | Holding | In FVD | In VIGI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY | 0.41% | 1.19% | 0.41% |
| 2 | FORTIS INC | 0.40% | 0.50% | 0.40% |
| 3 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 0.40% | 4.78% | 0.40% |
| 4 | TORONTO DOMINION BANK (THE) | 0.40% | 3.47% | 0.40% |
| 5 | CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE | 0.39% | 1.89% | 0.39% |
| 6 | STANTEC INC | 0.39% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
Only in FVD
245 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 VIGI
335 total- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc 4.59%
- Nestle SA 3.66%
- Novartis AG 3.48%
- Roche Holding AG 3.45%
- SAP SE 3.24%
- Schneider Electric SE 3.16%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc 2.85%
- Novo Nordisk A/S 2.61%
- Hitachi Ltd 2.57%
- Iberdrola SA 2.57%
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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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