FVDvsVPU

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund or Vanguard Utilities ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 15% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 42 stocks in both. VPU costs 0.09% a year against 0.62% for FVD, $53 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months FVD returned +10.4% and VPU +11.9%.

15%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
FVD17% in stocks the other holds too
VPU76% 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.

FVDVPUYearly cost0.62%0.09%Net assets$8.0B$10.6BPositions25172Last 12 months+10.4%+11.9%3 years, a year+8.8%+14.4%5 years, a year+6.3%+9.6%Largest holdingREYN 0.4%NEE 11.8%Main sectorFinancial Services 19%Utilities 99%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$163VPU$171
September 2019May 2026

What they both hold

42 stocks are in both funds: 17% of FVD and 76% of VPU. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin FVDin VPU
IDA0.4%0.5%AWK0.4%1.5%AEP0.4%4.5%PNW0.4%0.8%WTRG0.4%0.7%LNT0.4%1.1%EVRG0.4%1.2%DTE0.4%2.0%CMS0.4%1.5%ED0.4%2.5%

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 VPU

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. CEGConstellation Energy5.8%
  2. SRESempra3.8%
  3. VSTVistra Corp.3.6%
  4. PCGPG&E Corporation2.4%
  5. NRGNRG Energy1.8%
  6. EIXEdison International1.8%

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