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FVD vs VTV

Dividend vs US Value.

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund · Vanguard Value Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
30.7 %

124 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FVD and VTV would leave roughly 30.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

FVD only 69.1% Shared 30.7% VTV only 68.7%
In FVD only
113 positions
Shared
124 positions
In VTV only
187 positions

Side by side

FVD

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund

First Trust · Dividend

69 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.62%
Net assets
$8.04B
TTM yield
2.29%
Top-10 conc.
4.5%
VTV

Vanguard Value Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Value

94 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$254.46B
TTM yield
1.88%
Top-10 conc.
21.1%

Sub-score comparison

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Cost
97
76
Tax efficiency
87
96
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
84
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Tracking quality
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FVD sub-score VTV

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

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

124 shared in total
# Holding In FVD In VTV Overlap
1 Bristol-Myers Squibb Company 0.45% 0.51% 0.45%
2 AbbVie Inc. 0.44% 1.58% 0.44%
3 Exxon Mobil Corp. 0.44% 2.90% 0.44%
4 Pfizer Inc. 0.44% 0.65% 0.44%
5 Merck & Co., Inc 0.44% 1.22% 0.44%
6 Johnson & Johnson 0.43% 2.41% 0.43%
7 Linde PLC 0.43% 0.94% 0.43%
8 Southern Co. 0.43% 0.44% 0.43%
9 NextEra Energy Inc 0.43% 0.75% 0.43%
10 Pepsico Inc 0.43% 0.87% 0.43%
11 Bank of America Corp. 0.43% 1.23% 0.43%
12 Altria Group, Inc. 0.43% 0.45% 0.43%

Only in FVD

113 total
  • 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%
  • GSK plc 0.44%
  • The Campbells Co. 0.44%
  • MSC Industrial Direct Co Inc. 0.44%
  • Avery Dennison Corporation 0.44%
  • Idacorp Inc 0.44%

Only in VTV

187 total
  • Berkshire Hathaway Inc 3.06%
  • Walmart Inc 2.23%
  • Micron Technology Inc 1.56%
  • Caterpillar Inc 1.35%
  • Wells Fargo & Co 1.01%
  • UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.00%
  • AT&T Inc 0.83%
  • Citigroup Inc 0.76%
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 0.75%
  • Intel Corp 0.72%

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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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.