ETF comparison
FVD vs VUG
Dividend vs US Large Cap Growth.
First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
14 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FVD and VUG would leave roughly 2.7% 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
VUG 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
14 shared in total| # | Holding | In FVD | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WELLTOWER INC | 0.42% | 0.46% | 0.42% |
| 2 | MCDONALD'S CORP | 0.39% | 0.54% | 0.39% |
| 3 | TJX COMPANIES INC (THE) | 0.36% | 0.48% | 0.36% |
| 4 | ECOLAB INC | 0.40% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 5 | MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC | 0.41% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 6 | CINTAS CORP | 0.39% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 7 | FASTENAL COMPANY | 0.41% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 8 | STRYKER CORP | 0.40% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 9 | YUM! BRANDS INC | 0.41% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 10 | SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY (THE) | 0.42% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 11 | REALTY INCOME CORP | 0.40% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 12 | VERISK ANALYTICS INC | 0.41% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
Only in FVD
237 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 VUG
132 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
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- FVD vs SCHY · Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF 1.5%
- FVD vs IDV · iShares International Select Dividend ETF 1.2%
- FVD vs DEM · WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund 0.0%
More comparisons with VUG
- VUG vs SDY · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF 2.6%
- VUG vs VFLO · Victoryshares Free Cash Flow ETF 2.4%
- VUG vs SCHM · Schwab U.S. Mid-Cap ETF 2.2%
- VUG vs AVMV · Avantis U.S. Mid Cap Value ETF 1.9%
- VUG vs COWZ · Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF 1.8%
- VUG vs NOBL · ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF 1.6%
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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