FTCSvsVIG

First Trust Capital Strength ETF or Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 31% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 37 stocks in both. VIG costs 0.04% a year against 0.53% for FTCS, $49 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months FTCS returned +4.5% and VIG +18.0%.

31%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
FTCS72% in stocks the other holds too
VIG37% 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.

FTCSVIGYearly cost0.53%0.04%Net assets$7.6B$130.9BPositions52341Last 12 months+4.5%+18.0%3 years, a year+9.1%+14.9%5 years, a year+5.8%+10.4%Largest holdingCSCO 2.7%AVGO 4.6%Main sectorIndustrials 23%Technology 25%Holdings as ofJun 30, 2026Jul 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 August 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

FTCS$180VIG$229
August 2019June 2026

What they both hold

37 stocks are in both funds: 72% of FTCS and 37% of VIG. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin FTCSin VIG
JNJ2.2%2.7%V2.2%2.4%AAPL2.2%4.5%MA2.0%2.0%CSCO2.7%2.0%COST1.9%1.8%WMT1.8%2.1%MSFT1.8%4.3%KO2.2%1.5%PG2.0%1.5%

Only in FTCS

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. MNSTMonster Beverage2.5%
  2. TROWT. Rowe Price2.4%
  3. PAYXPaychex2.2%
  4. MMM3M2.1%
  5. GOOGLAlphabet Inc.2.1%
  6. TTTrane Technologies2.1%

Only in VIG

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. AVGOBroadcom4.6%
  2. JPMJPMorgan Chase4.1%
  3. LLYEli Lilly3.9%
  4. XOMExxon Mobil Corporation2.8%
  5. ABBVAbbVie1.9%
  6. BACBank of America1.7%

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