FVDvsIVE

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund or iShares S&P 500 Value ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 29% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 151 stocks in both. IVE costs 0.18% a year against 0.62% for FVD, $44 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months FVD returned +10.4% and IVE +18.2%.

29%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
FVD60% in stocks the other holds too
IVE38% 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.

FVDIVEYearly cost0.62%0.18%Net assets$8.0B$47.7BPositions251442Last 12 months+10.4%+18.2%3 years, a year+8.8%+14.2%5 years, a year+6.3%+11.1%Largest holdingREYN 0.4%AAPL 7.3%Main sectorFinancial Services 19%Technology 21%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.

FVD$168IVE$225
July 2019June 2026

What they both hold

151 stocks are in both funds: 60% of FVD and 38% of IVE. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin FVDin IVE
IBM0.4%0.4%MRK0.4%1.1%JNJ0.4%0.9%ABBV0.4%0.8%HD0.4%1.2%CB0.4%0.4%UNP0.4%0.6%PM0.4%0.4%BMY0.4%0.4%MO0.4%0.4%

Only in FVD

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. REYNReynolds Consumer Products Inc.0.4%
  2. RLIRLI Corp.0.4%
  3. SONSonoco Products Company0.4%
  4. MZTIThe Marzetti Company0.4%
  5. CWTCalifornia Water Service Group0.4%
  6. BRCBrady Corporation0.4%

Only in IVE

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. AAPLApple Inc.7.3%
  2. AMZNAmazon3.8%
  3. INTCIntel2.3%
  4. WMTWalmart1.7%
  5. TSLATesla, Inc.1.5%
  6. COSTCostco1.4%

More comparisons

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (FVD: June 2026, IVE: 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.