FVDvsVYM

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund or Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 31% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 163 stocks in both. VYM 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 VYM +23.7%.

31%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
FVD65% in stocks the other holds too
VYM56% 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.

FVDVYMYearly cost0.62%0.04%Net assets$8.0B$99.2BPositions251616Last 12 months+10.4%+23.7%3 years, a year+8.8%+16.8%5 years, a year+6.3%+12.2%Largest holdingREYN 0.4%AVGO 7.4%Main sectorFinancial Services 19%Financial Services 22%Holdings as ofJun 30, 2026Jul 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 August 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

FVD$166VYM$222
August 2019June 2026

More comparisons

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