STXV vs VTV

STXVBStrive 1000 Value ETF

VTVAVanguard Morningstar Value ETF

In short

STXV Strive's value entry casts a wide net: about 700 stocks tracking the Bloomberg U.S. 1000 Value Index, priced dead on the category median at 0.18%. A 2022 arrival that spreads its bets rather than concentrating them, and still trades lightly.

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

STXV The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return performance of its designated Bloomberg U.S. 1000 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

• STXV Wide net, not a stock-picking bet: about 700 names tracking the Bloomberg U.S. 1000 Value Index, so no single position drives the fund.
• 0.18% a year, sitting right on the median fee for US value ETFs.
• Does what the label says: a clearly declared US equity value mandate tracked closely, landing in the upper half of its value peer group.
• Distributions land on a quarterly schedule.

• 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

• STXV Thinly traded, which can mean wider bid-ask spreads than the category's household names.
• The giants of value cost a fraction of this: VTV at 0.03%, SCHV and IUSV at 0.04%, against 0.18% here.
• Launched in 2022 and still a modest-sized fund, so the track record and asset base are both short of the category's veterans.

• 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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