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%.
The two funds
From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.
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.
What they both hold
25 stocks are in both funds: 50% of FTCS and 25% of MGV. The biggest shared positions:
Only in FTCS
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
Only in MGV
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
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.