MFVL vs VTV

MFVLDMotley Fool Value Factor ETF

VTVAVanguard Morningstar Value ETF

In short

MFVL Motley Fool's stock-picking brand, boiled down to a rules-based value index. It opened in December 2025 at 0.50% a year, well above the value-ETF norm, and its record starts from scratch.

VTV Value investing for three cents on every hundred dollars a year. Since 2004, VTV has run a passive, fully invested portfolio of roughly 300 large US companies that screen cheap, at a fee near the industry floor.

Stated mandate

MFVL The Fund seeks investment results corresponding generally to the total-return performance of the Motley Fool Value Index.

VTV The fund seeks to track a large-capitalization U.S. value-stock benchmark through passive indexing and substantial replication of that index.

Why people hold it

• MFVL The mandate fits on a napkin: track the Motley Fool Value Index. One factor, value, stated on the tin, with no blended-style small print to decode.
• The Fool's value view arrives as a named, published index rather than a manager's discretion, so the holdings follow a written screen you can look up.

• VTV 0.03% a year, about a sixth of the 0.18% median for US value funds. Cost is the part of the outcome the fund actually controls.
• Same recipe, very different sticker: PRXV tracks the same declared value index and charges 0.36%, twelve times VTV's fee.
• Passively managed, full replication, fully invested. No manager hunches, no cash sitting idle, and the fund has tracked its benchmark closely.vanguard.com
• One of the largest and most actively traded funds in the US value aisle, the kind of scale that keeps bid-ask spreads thin for ordinary orders.

Worth knowing

• MFVL At 0.50% a year, it costs multiples of the cohort's cheap giants: VTV charges 0.03% and SCHV 0.04% for large-cap value exposure.
• It launched in December 2025, so there is no multi-year record and no full market cycle showing how the screen behaves.
• Assets are small and trading is light, which can mean wider bid-ask spreads than the household names in the same category.

• VTV Large caps only, about 300 of them. Cheap mid- and small-cap stocks live in separate funds (VOE, VTWV), so this is one slice of value, not the whole market.
• It is a value screen by design, so the priciest fast growers are largely filtered out. In growth-led stretches it can move very differently from a total-market fund.
• Income arrives quarterly, in four instalments rather than a monthly drip.

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