FVDvsVTV

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund or Vanguard Value ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 29% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 125 stocks in both. VTV costs 0.03% a year against 0.62% for FVD, $59 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months FVD returned +10.4% and VTV +25.9%.

29%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
FVD50% in stocks the other holds too
VTV49% 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.

FVDVTVYearly cost0.62%0.03%Net assets$8.0B$254.5BPositions251326Last 12 months+10.4%+25.9%3 years, a year+8.8%+18.0%5 years, a year+6.3%+12.3%Largest holdingREYN 0.4%MU 4.9%Main sectorFinancial Services 19%Financial Services 22%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$168VTV$234
July 2019June 2026

What they both hold

125 stocks are in both funds: 50% of FVD and 49% of VTV. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin FVDin VTV
IBM0.4%1.0%MRK0.4%1.2%JNJ0.4%2.3%ABBV0.4%1.7%HD0.4%1.3%BMY0.4%0.4%AMGN0.4%0.7%CB0.4%0.4%UNP0.4%0.6%PM0.4%1.1%

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. MZTIThe Marzetti Company0.4%
  6. CWTCalifornia Water Service Group0.4%

Only in VTV

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. MUMicron Technology4.9%
  2. BRK-BBerkshire Hathaway Inc.2.9%
  3. WMTWalmart1.9%
  4. CATCaterpillar Inc.1.8%
  5. UNHUnitedHealth Group1.4%
  6. INTCIntel1.0%

More comparisons

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