KNGZ vs WDIV: Grades, Fees and Holdings Compared

First Trust S&P 500 Diversified Dividend Aristocrats ETF

KNGZCNasdaq

State Street SPDR S&P Global Dividend ETF

WDIVBNYSE Arca

Overlap

6.2%by weight

Expense ratio

WDIV −0.10pt a year

KNGZ0.50%WDIV0.40%

Avg volume · 30D

WDIV 1.3×the volume

KNGZ5.75KWDIV7.33K

5Y return · a year

KNGZ +1.6pt

KNGZ+11.0%WDIV+9.4%

KNGZ vs WDIV Performance

Oct 29, 2021 – Oct 30, 2026

+68.4%KNGZ+56.8%WDIV

Expense ratio: KNGZ 0.50%; WDIV 0.40%, better
Fund size: KNGZ $69M; WDIV $281M
1Y total return: KNGZ +25.9%, better; WDIV +19.5%
Yield (12M): KNGZ 2.45%; WDIV 4.20%, better
Holdings: KNGZ 99; WDIV 114
Avg volume (30D): KNGZ 5.75K sh; WDIV 7.33K sh, better
NAV per share: KNGZ $43.39; WDIV $82.68
52W range

ETF.net Grade

Pillar letters and Scores for KNGZ, WDIV, with each pillar’s weight
Pillar	KNGZ	WDIV
Cost30% weight	F23	C41Higher
Mission25% weight	A73	A74Higher
Risk15% weight	C44	A70Higher
Tradability15% weight	D30	D38Higher
Holdings10% weight	D28	A74Higher
Durability5% weight	C44	B61Higher

Rank among Dividend Aristocrats funds

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Same Category. KNGZ and WDIV are both graded against the same 7 Dividend Aristocrats funds, so their Grades compare head to head.

Dividend Aristocrats⁠

Category · 7 funds

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WDIV ranks 3rd and KNGZ 5th of 7 funds in the Dividend Aristocrats Category.

Rank 1ASDYState Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETFScore 75
Rank 2ANOBLProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETFScore 70
Rank 3BREGLProShares S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats ETFScore 57
Rank 3BWDIVState Street SPDR S&P Global Dividend ETFScore 57
Rank 5CKNGZFirst Trust S&P 500 Diversified Dividend Aristocrats ETFScore 41
Rank 6CSNPDXtrackers S&P Dividend Aristocrats Screened ETFScore 40

Our read on each fund

ETF.net Research

KNGZCFirst Trust S&P 500 Diversified Dividend Aristocrats ETF

WDIVBState Street SPDR S&P Global Dividend ETF

In short

KNGZ Dividend Aristocrats with a diversification rule bolted on: KNGZ tracks a sector-neutral S&P 500 dividend-grower index, so sector weights are set by design instead of drifting toward wherever the dividend growers happen to cluster.

WDIV Dividend aristocrats with a passport. WDIV screens the world for companies that have held or raised payouts for at least a decade, buys the top yielders, and caps how much any one stock, sector or country can matter.

Stated mandate

KNGZ The Fund seeks to track the price and yield of the S&P 500 Sector-Neutral Dividend Aristocrats Index. It normally invests at least 90% of assets in index securities and uses an indexing approach.

WDIV The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the S&P Global Dividend Aristocrats Index.

Why people hold it

KNGZ The "diversified" in the name is structural: a sector-neutral index of roughly 100 dividend payers, so no single sector quietly becomes the whole portfolio.ftportfolios.com
Plain index plumbing: normally at least 90% of assets in index securities, no manager discretion, and it has stayed close to the benchmark it names.ftportfolios.com
Live since 2017 as a First Trust index tracker, with distributions on a quarterly schedule.

WDIV The aristocrat idea, exported. NOBL's bar is 25 straight years of US dividend hikes; WDIV's is 10 years of stable or rising payouts anywhere in the S&P Global BMI, a far bigger pond.ssga.com proshares.com
Diversification is written into the rulebook: 3% cap per stock, 25% ceiling per sector and per country, and no more than 20 names from any single country.ssga.com
Running since 2013 at 0.40%, level with the median fee in its dividend-aristocrat peer group, and it sits in the upper half of that group on our review.
A compact book of roughly 90 global dividend payers, distributing quarterly.

Worth knowing

KNGZ Cost is the trade-off: 0.50% a year against a 0.40% peer median, and SPDG runs sector-neutral S&P dividend exposure for 0.05%.
Thinly traded with a modest asset base, so spreads and order type matter more here than in the category's household names.
It sits in the lower half of its dividend-aristocrat peer group overall, with fee and trading costs, not index tracking, driving that.

WDIV 0.40% is the going rate among aristocrat funds, but plainer dividend index options in the same group cost far less (SPDG runs 0.05%).
Thinly traded next to the headline US dividend names, so spreads can be wider than the sticker fee suggests.
It is a yield-first screen on foreign shares: currency moves feed into returns, and a decade of merely stable dividends clears the bar alongside real growth.ssga.com

Full KNGZ profile⁠

Full WDIV profile⁠

KNGZ vs WDIV Holdings

How KNGZ and WDIV differ

Overlap by weight

6.2%

Shared holdings make up 8.5% of WDIV and 8.3% of KNGZ.

Level by level

Holdings6 in both6.2%
Countryby domicile26.7%
Sector11 Sectors47.1%
Asset classEquity100%

Sector

Sector weights in KNGZ and WDIV, widest gap first
Sector	More in KNGZMore in WDIV	KNGZ	WDIV
Technology	KNGZ +40.2 points	43.6%	3.4%
Utilities	WDIV +12.2 points	1.8%	13.9%
Real Estate	WDIV +10.9 points	1.6%	12.5%
Financials	WDIV +10.4 points	10.7%	21.1%
Industrials	WDIV +7.3 points	6.4%	13.7%
Consumer Discretionary	KNGZ +6.6 points	9.7%	3.1%
Energy	WDIV +5.0 points	2.9%	7.9%
Health Care	KNGZ +4.7 points	9.2%	4.5%
Materials	WDIV +4.1 points	0.8%	4.9%
Consumer Staples	WDIV +3.0 points	4.0%	7.0%
Communication	KNGZ +1.4 points	9.4%	8.0%

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Country weights in KNGZ and WDIV, widest gap first
Country	More in KNGZMore in WDIV	KNGZ	WDIV
United States	KNGZ +73.3 points	96.4%	23.1%
Canada	WDIV +13.2 points	0.0%	13.2%
United Kingdom	WDIV +9.2 points	0.7%	9.9%
Switzerland	WDIV +8.9 points	0.0%	8.9%
Japan	WDIV +8.0 points	0.0%	8.0%
China	WDIV +4.7 points	2.9%	7.6%
South Korea	WDIV +4.7 points	0.0%	4.7%
Italy	WDIV +3.9 points	0.0%	3.9%
Other countries (11)	WDIV +20.6 points	0.0%	20.6%

Outside the US: WDIV 80% developed, 20% emerging.

Concentration

Weight in the 10 largest Holdings

KNGZ36.1%
WDIV17.3%

Securities held

KNGZ98
WDIV92

Asset class

KNGZ: Equity
WDIV: Equity

Holdings

Only in KNGZ92
In both6
Only in WDIV86

Only in KNGZ

92 securities, 91.4% of KNGZ by weight

Accenture plc4.20%
Texas Instruments Incorporated4.13%
International Business Machines Corporation4.00%
Microchip Technology Incorporated3.92%
QUALCOMM Incorporated3.62%
HP Inc.3.59%
Comcast Corporation (Class A)3.40%
TE Connectivity Plc2.92%
Oracle Corporation2.91%
Omnicom Group Inc.2.34%
Roper Technologies, Inc.2.26%
Analog Devices, Inc.2.13%
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company1.52%
United Parcel Service, Inc. (Class B)1.35%
NIKE, Inc. (Class B)1.34%
Microsoft Corporation1.32%
Broadcom Inc.1.25%
Best Buy Co., Inc.1.24%
Corning Incorporated1.17%
General Mills, Inc.1.08%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company1.07%
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.1.03%
Prudential Financial, Inc.1.02%
McDonald's Corporation0.98%
The Home Depot, Inc.0.96%
Truist Financial Corporation0.94%
Hasbro, Inc.0.93%
Regions Financial Corporation0.93%
Genuine Parts Company0.92%
Medtronic Plc0.90%
The Clorox Company0.87%
Chevron Corporation0.86%
Paychex, Inc.0.85%
Franklin Templeton, Inc.0.84%
KeyCorp0.84%
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated0.83%
Hormel Foods Corporation0.83%
Lowe's Companies, Inc.0.81%
CVS Health Corporation0.78%
Starbucks Corporation0.77%
U.S. Bancorp0.77%
Lennar Corporation0.77%
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.0.75%
EOG Resources, Inc.0.74%
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.0.73%
Kimberly-Clark Corporation0.72%
AbbVie Inc.0.71%
Abbott Laboratories0.70%
Fifth Third Bancorp0.69%
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated0.64%

Only in WDIV

86 securities, 91.0% of WDIV by weight

Lenovo Group Ltd2.21%
Legal & General Group PLC1.97%
Teleperformance1.81%
Apa Group1.73%
Highwoods Properties Inc1.66%
Canadian Natural Resources1.60%
Russel Metals Inc1.52%
Dnb Bank Asa1.52%
Northwest Bancshares Inc1.50%
Gs Holdings1.48%
Ltc Properties Inc1.48%
Pembina Pipeline Corp1.46%
Energizer Holdings Inc1.32%
Jiangsu Express Co Ltd H1.31%
Getty Realty Corp1.28%
Keyera Corp1.26%
Londonmetric Property PLC1.24%
Peoples Bancorp Inc1.22%
Kt+g Corp1.20%
Edp SA1.20%
Bosideng Intl Hldgs Ltd1.17%
Sun Life Financial Inc1.16%
Bank of Nova Scotia1.16%
United Utilities Group PLC1.14%
Power Assets Holdings Ltd1.12%
Vopak1.12%
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd1.12%
Dksh Holding AG1.11%
Ha Sustainable Infrastructur1.11%
Tc Energy Corp1.11%
Enel Spa1.10%
Kilroy Realty Corp1.09%
Elisa Oyj1.09%
Far East Horizon Ltd1.08%
Segro PLC1.08%
Banque Cantonale Vaudois Reg1.07%
Columbia Banking System Inc1.05%
Vanguard International Semi1.05%
Kansai Paint Co Ltd1.04%
Zurich Insurance Group AG1.03%
Sino Land Co1.03%
First Interstate Bancsys A1.03%
Ck Infrastructure Holdings L1.03%
Canadian Utilities Ltd A1.02%
Emirates Telecom Group Co1.02%
Coca Cola Femsa Sab De Cv1.01%
Dhl AG1.00%
Canadian Tire Corp Class A1.00%
Saudi Telecom Co0.99%
Lg Corp0.99%

Weight gaps

All 6 Holdings in both funds, largest gap first.

Holding weights in KNGZ and WDIV, widest gap first
Holding	More in KNGZMore in WDIV	KNGZ	WDIV
Verizon Communications Inc.VZ	KNGZ +1.95 points	3.38%	1.43%
Altria Group, Inc.MO	WDIV +0.82 points	0.94%	1.76%
Amcor plcAMCR	WDIV +0.68 points	0.64%	1.32%
Edison InternationalEIX	WDIV +0.63 points	0.46%	1.09%
ONEOK, Inc.OKE	WDIV +0.11 points	1.24%	1.35%
Pfizer Inc.PFE	KNGZ +0.09 points	1.61%	1.52%

All 98 KNGZ holdings⁠All 90 WDIV holdings⁠

How we measure overlap

Each holding counts at its smaller weight in the two funds, summed over the full Holdings. Sector, country and asset class use the same rule on each fund’s split. Cash, FX and derivative lines stay out of the counts. Two bond funds get no overlap figure.

KNGZ vs WDIV Cost

Overpaying KNGZ vs WDIV

$1,889

On $10,000 over 30 years. 7% growth a year before fees, expense ratio only.

KNGZ 0.50%
$9,979
WDIV 0.40%
$8,090

Amount$10,000

Years30 years

Cost over time

KNGZ 0.50%
WDIV 0.40%
Overpaying

Year by year

Year	KNGZ	WDIV	Overpaying
10	$900	$723	$177
20	$3,460	$2,793	$667
30	$9,979	$8,090	$1,889

Expense ratio

0.50%KNGZ
0.40%WDIV, cheaper

WDIV0.40%KNGZ0.50%

0.15%0.60%

Middle half of Dividend Aristocrats funds
Median 0.40%

WDIV 4th cheapest of 7 funds

KNGZ 6th cheapest of 7 funds

KNGZ vs WDIV Dividends

Last 12 months to Oct 30, 2026

Yield (12M): KNGZ 2.45%; WDIV 4.20%, better
Payout (12M): KNGZ $1.06; WDIV $3.48
Last payment: KNGZ $0.26; WDIV $0.83
Ex-dividend: KNGZ Sep 24, 2026; WDIV Sep 21, 2026
Paid on: KNGZ Sep 30, 2026; WDIV Sep 23, 2026
Frequency: KNGZ Quarterly; WDIV Quarterly

Distribution history

Per share, 2017 to 2026, same scale for both

KNGZQuarterly · 37 paymentsAll KNGZ payments⁠

WDIVQuarterly · 39 paymentsAll WDIV payments⁠

KNGZ vs WDIV Risk

Fall from peak · 5 years

KNGZ
WDIV

Risk facts

VolatilityStd dev, 3 years: KNGZ 13.8%WDIV 11.1%, better
Return per unit of riskSharpe ratio, 3 years: KNGZ 1.17WDIV 1.41, better
Worst fallMax drawdown, 5 years: KNGZ −19.7%, betterWDIV −22.1%
Market sensitivityBeta, 5 years: KNGZ 0.90WDIV 0.72; Market = 1

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