ETF comparison
AVUSvsDFAU
Both US Total Market.
Avantis US Equity ETF · Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,677 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and DFAU would leave roughly78.1%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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 thecost calculator pre-filled with AVUS vs DFAU.
Top shared holdings
1,677 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In DFAU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.48% | 6.83% | 5.48% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 5.36% | 5.76% | 5.36% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 3.84% | 4.62% | 3.84% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.67% | 3.66% | 3.66% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.41% | 3.06% | 2.41% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.21% | 2.03% | 2.03% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 1.94% | 2.53% | 1.94% |
| 8 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.20% | 1.20% | 1.20% |
| 9 | Broadcom Inc | 1.18% | 2.59% | 1.18% |
| 10 | Micron Technology Inc | 2.40% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
| 11 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 1.07% | 0.92% | 0.92% |
| 12 | Eli Lilly & Co | 0.84% | 1.06% | 0.84% |
Only in AVUS
197 total- Carnival Corp Ltd0.14%
- MercadoLibre Inc0.11%
- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund0.06%
- Masimo Corp0.04%
- Strategy Inc0.04%
- Royalty Pharma PLC0.03%
- Viking Holdings Ltd0.03%
- Hess Midstream LP0.02%
- NU Holdings Ltd/Cayman Islands0.02%
- Graphic Packaging Holding Co0.02%
Only in DFAU
509 total- DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP2.15%
- Philip Morris International Inc.0.32%
- Altria Group, Inc.0.15%
- CARRIER GLOBAL CORPORATION0.10%
- NASDAQ, INC.0.09%
- MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED0.07%
- BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY0.07%
- Carnival Corporation0.07%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A.0.06%
- COTERRA ENERGY INC.0.06%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.