ETF comparison
AVUS vs DGRO
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Holdings overlap
357 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and DGRO would leave roughly 37.5% 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
DGRO is 7 bps cheaper than AVUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/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 DGRO.
Top shared holdings
357 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In DGRO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp | 3.84% | 3.24% | 3.24% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 5.36% | 2.86% | 2.86% |
| 3 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.20% | 3.16% | 1.20% |
| 4 | Broadcom Inc | 1.18% | 2.55% | 1.18% |
| 5 | Eli Lilly & Co | 0.84% | 1.19% | 0.84% |
| 6 | Visa Inc | 0.68% | 1.10% | 0.68% |
| 7 | Walmart Inc | 0.64% | 0.87% | 0.64% |
| 8 | Merck & Co Inc | 0.63% | 1.91% | 0.63% |
| 9 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.58% | 3.07% | 0.58% |
| 10 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 0.69% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 11 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.92% | 0.53% | 0.53% |
| 12 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.52% | 1.11% | 0.52% |
Only in AVUS
1,516 total- NVIDIA Corp 5.48%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.67%
- Alphabet Inc 2.41%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.40%
- Meta Platforms Inc 2.21%
- Alphabet Inc 1.94%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.07%
- Tesla Inc 0.80%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 0.66%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 0.61%
Only in DGRO
33 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.87%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 2.13%
- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC 0.37%
- HONEYWELL AEROSPACE INC 0.32%
- BECTON DICKINSON & COMPANY 0.27%
- ARES MANAGEMENT CORP 0.25%
- MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC 0.17%
- CARRIER GLOBAL CORP 0.15%
- MCCORMICK & CO. INC 0.11%
- WILLIS TOWERS WATSON PLC 0.10%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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