ETF comparison
FVD vs VTV
Dividend vs US Value.
First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF
Holdings overlap
127 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FVD and VTV would leave roughly 29.5% 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
VTV is 59 bps cheaper than FVD. On a $100,000 position that's about $590/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 VTV.
Top shared holdings
127 shared in total| # | Holding | In FVD | In VTV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP | 0.43% | 0.99% | 0.43% |
| 2 | MERCK & COMPANY INC | 0.43% | 1.19% | 0.43% |
| 3 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.43% | 2.29% | 0.43% |
| 4 | ABBVIE INC | 0.43% | 1.66% | 0.43% |
| 5 | HOME DEPOT INC (THE) | 0.42% | 1.32% | 0.42% |
| 6 | BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY | 0.41% | 0.44% | 0.41% |
| 7 | AMGEN INC | 0.41% | 0.73% | 0.41% |
| 8 | CHUBB LTD (SWITZERLAND) | 0.41% | 0.44% | 0.41% |
| 9 | UNION PACIFIC CORP | 0.41% | 0.60% | 0.41% |
| 10 | PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC | 0.41% | 1.05% | 0.41% |
| 11 | RTX CORP | 0.41% | 0.96% | 0.41% |
| 12 | ALTRIA GROUP INC | 0.40% | 0.45% | 0.40% |
Only in FVD
124 total- REYNOLDS CONSUMER PRODUCTS INC 0.44%
- RLI CORP 0.44%
- SONOCO PRODUCTS COMPANY 0.44%
- JACK HENRY & ASSOCIATES INC 0.44%
- MARZETTI COMPANY (THE) 0.43%
- CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP 0.42%
- BRADY CORP 0.42%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.42%
- WELLTOWER INC 0.42%
- MGE ENERGY INC 0.42%
Only in VTV
181 total- Micron Technology Inc 4.87%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 2.95%
- Walmart Inc 1.86%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.83%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.41%
- Intel Corp 1.05%
- Wells Fargo & Co 0.95%
- Citigroup Inc 0.85%
- General Electric Co 0.73%
- QUALCOMM Inc 0.73%
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- VTV vs VLUE · iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF 28.8%
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- VTV vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 27.7%
- VTV vs SUSA · iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA ETF 27.6%
- VTV vs XLG · Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF 26.5%
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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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