FTCSvsMGV

First Trust Capital Strength ETF or Vanguard Mega Cap Value ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 24% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 25 stocks in both. MGV costs 0.05% a year against 0.53% for FTCS, $48 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months FTCS returned +4.5% and MGV +26.8%.

24%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
FTCS50% in stocks the other holds too
MGV25% 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.

FTCSMGVYearly cost0.53%0.05%Net assets$7.6B$12.7BPositions52129Last 12 months+4.5%+26.8%3 years, a year+9.1%+19.6%5 years, a year+5.8%+12.0%Largest holdingCSCO 2.7%MU 5.3%Main sectorIndustrials 23%Financial Services 22%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.

FTCS$179MGV$236
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (FTCS: June 2026, MGV: 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.