FVDvsSCHV

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund or Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Value ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 30% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 166 stocks in both. SCHV costs 0.04% a year against 0.62% for FVD, $58 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months FVD returned +10.4% and SCHV +27.8%.

30%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
FVD66% in stocks the other holds too
SCHV45% 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.

FVDSCHVYearly cost0.62%0.04%Net assets$8.0B$15.5BPositions251559Last 12 months+10.4%+27.8%3 years, a year+8.8%+19.4%5 years, a year+6.3%+10.3%Largest holdingREYN 0.4%MU 3.5%Main sectorFinancial Services 19%Technology 21%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.

FVD$163SCHV$217
September 2019May 2026

What they both hold

166 stocks are in both funds: 66% of FVD and 45% of SCHV. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin FVDin SCHV
IBM0.4%0.9%MRK0.4%1.0%JNJ0.4%1.8%ABBV0.4%1.2%HD0.4%1.0%WELL0.4%0.5%AMGN0.4%0.6%UNP0.4%0.5%PM0.4%0.9%RTX0.4%0.8%

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. SHWSherwin-Williams0.4%
  6. CWTCalifornia Water Service Group0.4%

Only in SCHV

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. MUMicron Technology3.5%
  2. BRK-BBerkshire Hathaway Inc.2.8%
  3. INTCIntel1.7%
  4. WMTWalmart1.6%
  5. CATCaterpillar Inc.1.3%
  6. LRCXLam Research1.3%

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