Which stocks do FDL and VDC both hold?

19 stocks are in both. The biggest shared positions: PM (6.1% of FDL, 4.6% of VDC), PEP (4.8% of FDL, 4.3% of VDC), MO (4.6% of FDL, 3.9% of VDC), MDLZ (1.6% of FDL, 2.7% of VDC), TGT (1.4% of FDL, 2.0% of VDC).

FDLvsVDC

First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund or Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 21% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 19 stocks in both. VDC costs 0.09% a year against 0.43% for FDL, $34 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months FDL returned +20.8% and VDC +1.9%.

21%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight

FDL24% in stocks the other holds too

VDC24% in stocks the other holds too

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The two funds

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

FDLVDCYearly cost0.43%0.09%Net assets$7.3B$9.2BPositions101107Last 12 months+20.8%+1.9%3 years, a year+17.5%+8.3%5 years, a year+12.5%+6.4%Largest holdingCVX 7.4%WMT 14.7%Main sectorConsumer Defensive 24%Consumer Defensive 98%Holdings as ofJun 30, 2026May 31, 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 September 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

FDL$224VDC$171

September 2019May 2026

What they both hold

19 stocks are in both funds: 24% of FDL and 24% of VDC. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin FDLin VDC

PMPhilip Morris International6.1%4.6%PEPPepsiCo4.8%4.3%MOAltria4.6%3.9%MDLZMondelez International1.6%2.7%TGTTarget Corporation1.4%2.0%KMBKimberly-Clark1.2%1.0%KHCKraft Heinz0.9%0.8%GISGeneral Mills0.9%0.7%CLXClorox0.4%0.5%TSNTyson Foods0.4%0.7%

Only in FDL

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

Only in VDC

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

More comparisons

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (FDL: June 2026, VDC: May 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.