SDVYvsSPMD
First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF or State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 18% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 76 stocks in both. SPMD costs 0.03% a year against 0.58% for SDVY, $55 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months SDVY returned +23.6% and SPMD +25.8%.
The two funds
From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.
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.
What they both hold
76 stocks are in both funds: 45% of SDVY and 20% of SPMD. The biggest shared positions:
Only in SDVY
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
Only in SPMD
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
More comparisons
From each fund’s Form N-PORT (SDVY: June 2026, SPMD: 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.