FVDvsVOE

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund or Vanguard Mid-Cap Value ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 23% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 63 stocks in both. VOE costs 0.05% a year against 0.62% for FVD, $57 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months FVD returned +10.4% and VOE +22.6%.

23%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
FVD25% in stocks the other holds too
VOE37% 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.

FVDVOEYearly cost0.62%0.05%Net assets$8.0B$37.2BPositions251182Last 12 months+10.4%+22.6%3 years, a year+8.8%+15.1%5 years, a year+6.3%+9.5%Largest holdingREYN 0.4%CMI 1.7%Main sectorFinancial Services 19%Financial Services 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$168VOE$208
July 2019June 2026

What they both hold

63 stocks are in both funds: 25% of FVD and 37% of VOE. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin FVDin VOE
AJG0.4%1.0%KMB0.4%0.6%BDX0.4%0.7%CINF0.4%0.5%SYY0.4%0.7%KVUE0.4%0.6%ALL0.4%1.1%TRV0.4%0.6%KDP0.4%0.7%AON0.4%0.6%

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. JKHYJack Henry & Associates0.4%
  5. IBMIBM0.4%
  6. MRKMerck & Co.0.4%

Only in VOE

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. VLOValero Energy1.3%
  2. MPCMarathon Petroleum1.3%
  3. CRHCRH plc1.2%
  4. URIUnited Rentals1.2%
  5. SLBSchlumberger1.2%
  6. GMGeneral Motors1.2%

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