FVDvsXLU

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund or State Street Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 9.6% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 24 stocks in both. XLU costs 0.08% a year against 0.62% for FVD, $54 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months FVD returned +10.4% and XLU +14.1%.

9.6%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
FVD9.6% in stocks the other holds too
XLU79% 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.

FVDXLUYearly cost0.62%0.08%Net assets$8.0B$23.1BPositions25136Last 12 months+10.4%+14.1%3 years, a year+8.8%+14.9%5 years, a year+6.3%+10.8%Largest holdingREYN 0.4%NEE 12.9%Main sectorFinancial Services 19%Utilities 100%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$168XLU$188
July 2019June 2026

More comparisons

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