ETF comparison
AVUS vs DFAU
Both US Total Market.
Avantis US Equity ETF · Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,673 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and DFAU would leave roughly 76.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
DFAU is 3 bps cheaper than AVUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for AVUS.
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 AVUS vs DFAU.
Top shared holdings
1,673 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In DFAU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.48% | 6.74% | 5.48% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 5.36% | 6.45% | 5.36% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 3.84% | 5.09% | 3.84% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.67% | 3.59% | 3.59% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.41% | 2.74% | 2.41% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc | 1.94% | 2.28% | 1.94% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.21% | 1.79% | 1.79% |
| 8 | Micron Technology Inc | 2.40% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 9 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.20% | 1.28% | 1.20% |
| 10 | Broadcom Inc | 1.18% | 2.34% | 1.18% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co | 0.84% | 1.24% | 0.84% |
| 12 | Tesla Inc | 0.80% | 1.08% | 0.80% |
Only in AVUS
200 total- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.07%
- Honeywell International Inc 0.14%
- MercadoLibre Inc 0.11%
- Masimo Corp 0.04%
- Electronic Arts Inc 0.04%
- Strategy Inc 0.04%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.03%
- Viking Holdings Ltd 0.03%
- DuPont de Nemours Inc 0.03%
- Hess Midstream LP 0.02%
Only in DFAU
517 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.88%
- Philip Morris International Inc. 0.35%
- Altria Group, Inc. 0.13%
- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATION 0.10%
- HONEYWELL AEROSPACE INC. 0.10%
- NASDAQ, INC. 0.09%
- CARRIER GLOBAL CORPORATION 0.09%
- BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY 0.07%
- WILLIS TOWERS WATSON PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.06%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.06%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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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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