DGROvsFVD

iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF or First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund, side by side from their own SEC filings. 29% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 139 stocks in both. DGRO costs 0.08% a year against 0.62% for FVD, $54 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months DGRO returned +23.2% and FVD +10.4%.

29%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DGRO62% in stocks the other holds too
FVD55% in stocks the other holds too
stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

DGROFVDYearly cost0.08%0.62%Net assets$42.8B$8.0BPositions394251Last 12 months+23.2%+10.4%3 years, a year+16.2%+8.8%5 years, a year+11.1%+6.3%Largest holdingMSFT 3.2%REYN 0.4%Main sectorFinancial Services 21%Financial Services 19%Holdings as ofJul 31, 2026Jun 30, 2026

Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.

Growth of $100

Both funds from August 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

DGRO$231FVD$166
August 2019June 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (DGRO: July 2026, FVD: June 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.