ETF comparison
FVD vs VO
Dividend vs US Mid Cap.
First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
79 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FVD and VO would leave roughly 23.1% 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
VO 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
79 shared in total| # | Holding | In FVD | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ARTHUR J. GALLAGHER & COMPANY | 0.43% | 0.57% | 0.43% |
| 2 | VENTAS INC | 0.42% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 3 | ALLSTATE CORP (THE) | 0.42% | 0.59% | 0.42% |
| 4 | YUM! BRANDS INC | 0.41% | 0.43% | 0.41% |
| 5 | MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC | 0.41% | 0.67% | 0.41% |
| 6 | KEURIG DR PEPPER INC | 0.41% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 7 | FASTENAL COMPANY | 0.41% | 0.53% | 0.41% |
| 8 | BECTON DICKINSON & COMPANY | 0.42% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 9 | ENTERGY CORP | 0.40% | 0.53% | 0.40% |
| 10 | REALTY INCOME CORP | 0.40% | 0.56% | 0.40% |
| 11 | XCEL ENERGY INC | 0.40% | 0.48% | 0.40% |
| 12 | L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INC | 0.40% | 0.52% | 0.40% |
Only in FVD
172 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%
- COMCAST CORP 0.43%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.43%
- ABBVIE INC 0.43%
- MARZETTI COMPANY (THE) 0.43%
Only in VO
203 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
- Datadog Inc 0.83%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.76%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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