FVDvsSDY

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund or State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 33% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 91 stocks in both. SDY costs 0.35% a year against 0.62% for FVD, $27 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months FVD returned +10.4% and SDY +15.0%.

33%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
FVD37% in stocks the other holds too
SDY70% 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.

FVDSDYYearly cost0.62%0.35%Net assets$8.0B$21.4BPositions251160Last 12 months+10.4%+15.0%3 years, a year+8.8%+10.3%5 years, a year+6.3%+7.3%Largest holdingREYN 0.4%VZ 2.1%Main sectorFinancial Services 19%Industrials 19%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$168SDY$183
July 2019June 2026

What they both hold

91 stocks are in both funds: 37% of FVD and 70% of SDY. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin FVDin SDY
JKHY0.4%0.5%IBM0.4%1.3%JNJ0.4%1.0%ABBV0.4%1.6%KMB0.4%1.7%SHW0.4%0.4%BDX0.4%1.1%CINF0.4%1.1%SYY0.4%1.4%KVUE0.4%1.8%

Only in FVD

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. REYNReynolds Consumer Products Inc.0.4%
  2. MRKMerck & Co.0.4%
  3. LHLabcorp0.4%
  4. CMCSAComcast0.4%
  5. AJGArthur J. Gallagher & Co.0.4%
  6. DGXQuest Diagnostics0.4%

Only in SDY

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. QCOMQualcomm1.6%
  2. TXNTexas Instruments1.6%
  3. TGTTarget Corporation1.5%
  4. EIXEdison International1.4%
  5. MCHPMicrochip Technology1.3%
  6. ADMArcher Daniels Midland1.3%

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