FDLvsXLU

First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund or State Street Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 14% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 14 stocks in both. XLU 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 XLU +14.1%.

14%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
FDL14% in stocks the other holds too
XLU41% 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.

FDLXLUYearly cost0.43%0.08%Net assets$7.3B$23.1BPositions10136Last 12 months+20.8%+14.1%3 years, a year+17.5%+14.9%5 years, a year+12.5%+10.8%Largest holdingCVX 7.4%NEE 12.9%Main sectorConsumer Defensive 24%Utilities 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$214XLU$188
July 2019June 2026

What they both hold

14 stocks are in both funds: 14% of FDL and 41% of XLU. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin FDLin XLU
SO2.3%7.6%DUK2.2%6.9%D1.5%4.2%EXC1.2%3.4%PEG0.9%2.8%ED0.9%2.9%EIX0.9%2.0%WEC0.8%2.7%ES0.8%1.9%FE0.7%1.7%

Only in FDL

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. CVXChevron Corporation7.4%
  2. VZVerizon7.2%
  3. PMPhilip Morris International6.1%
  4. PFEPfizer5.9%
  5. PEPPepsiCo4.8%
  6. MOAltria4.6%

Only in XLU

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. NEENextEra Energy12.9%
  2. CEGConstellation Energy5.6%
  3. AEPAmerican Electric Power5.2%
  4. SRESempra4.3%
  5. ETREntergy3.7%
  6. VSTVistra Corp.3.5%

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