ETF comparison
FDL vs SPYD
Both Dividend.
First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF
Holdings overlap
48 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FDL and SPYD would leave roughly 37.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPYD is 36 bps cheaper than FDL. On a $100,000 position that's about $360/yr more in fees for FDL.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with FDL vs SPYD.
Top shared holdings
48 shared in total| # | Holding | In FDL | In SPYD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verizon Communications Inc. | 7.36% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 2 | EOG Resources Inc. | 1.55% | 1.64% | 1.55% |
| 3 | CHEVRON CORP | 9.12% | 1.52% | 1.52% |
| 4 | Oneok Inc. | 1.77% | 1.46% | 1.46% |
| 5 | Kinder Morgan, Inc. | 1.47% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 6 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Company | 3.26% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
| 7 | Pfizer Inc. | 6.48% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
| 8 | Altria Group, Inc. | 4.45% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
| 9 | Target Corp. | 1.33% | 1.40% | 1.33% |
| 10 | Pepsico Inc | 4.76% | 1.30% | 1.30% |
| 11 | Comcast Corporation | 2.82% | 1.22% | 1.22% |
| 12 | U.S. Bancorp. | 2.05% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
Only in FDL
39 total- Exxon Mobil Corp. 11.05%
- Merck & Co., Inc 5.51%
- ConocoPhillips 2.97%
- PNC Financial Services Group Inc. 1.77%
- American Electric Power Co, Inc. 1.24%
- Citizens Financial Group Inc 0.51%
- Coterra Energy Inc 0.48%
- Fidelity National Financial, Inc. 0.32%
- OneMain Holdings Inc. 0.32%
- Columbia Banking System Inc. 0.27%
Only in SPYD
33 total- LyondellBasell Industries NV 1.91%
- Dow Inc 1.80%
- Phillips 66 1.58%
- AT&T Inc 1.51%
- Duke Energy Corp 1.35%
- Iron Mountain Inc 1.34%
- Kimco Realty Corp 1.32%
- Regency Centers Corp 1.31%
- Federal Realty Investment Trust 1.27%
- Viatris Inc 1.27%
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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