FDLvsXLP

First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund or State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 23% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 14 stocks in both. XLP costs 0.08% a year against 0.43% for FDL, $35 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months FDL returned +20.8% and XLP +5.5%.

23%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
FDL23% in stocks the other holds too
XLP32% 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.

FDLXLPYearly cost0.43%0.08%Net assets$7.3B$13.6BPositions10140Last 12 months+20.8%+5.5%3 years, a year+17.5%+6.7%5 years, a year+12.5%+6.3%Largest holdingCVX 7.4%WMT 10.8%Main sectorConsumer Defensive 24%Consumer Defensive 100%Holdings as ofJun 30, 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 July 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

FDL$214XLP$172
July 2019June 2026

What they both hold

14 stocks are in both funds: 23% of FDL and 32% of XLP. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin FDLin XLP
PM6.1%6.1%MO4.6%4.5%PEP4.8%4.3%MDLZ1.6%4.2%TGT1.4%3.9%KMB1.2%2.4%KHC0.9%1.3%GIS0.9%1.2%CLX0.4%0.7%TSN0.4%1.0%

Only in FDL

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. CVXChevron Corporation7.4%
  2. VZVerizon7.2%
  3. PFEPfizer5.9%
  4. BMYBristol Myers Squibb3.4%
  5. UPSUnited Parcel Service3.2%
  6. CMCSAComcast3.1%

Only in XLP

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. WMTWalmart10.8%
  2. COSTCostco9.0%
  3. PGProcter & Gamble7.4%
  4. KOThe Coca-Cola Company6.8%
  5. CLColgate-Palmolive4.7%
  6. MNSTMonster Beverage4.5%

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