ETF comparison
AVUS vs DSI
Both US Total Market.
Holdings overlap
335 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and DSI would leave roughly 43.3% 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
AVUS is 10 bps cheaper than DSI. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for DSI.
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 DSI.
Top shared holdings
335 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In DSI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.48% | 13.42% | 5.48% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 3.84% | 9.49% | 3.84% |
| 3 | Alphabet Inc | 2.41% | 6.00% | 2.41% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 1.94% | 4.77% | 1.94% |
| 5 | Lam Research Corp | 0.99% | 1.06% | 0.99% |
| 6 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.92% | 1.10% | 0.92% |
| 7 | Tesla Inc | 0.80% | 2.54% | 0.80% |
| 8 | Visa Inc | 0.68% | 1.78% | 0.68% |
| 9 | Applied Materials Inc | 0.68% | 1.17% | 0.68% |
| 10 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 0.66% | 2.25% | 0.66% |
| 11 | Merck & Co Inc | 0.63% | 0.93% | 0.63% |
| 12 | Intel Corp | 0.58% | 1.15% | 0.58% |
Only in AVUS
1,538 total- Apple Inc 5.36%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.67%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.40%
- Meta Platforms Inc 2.21%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.20%
- Broadcom Inc 1.18%
- Exxon Mobil Corp 1.07%
- Eli Lilly & Co 0.84%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 0.69%
- Walmart Inc 0.64%
Only in DSI
67 total- WELLTOWER INC. 0.48%
- PROLOGIS, INC. 0.39%
- EQUINIX, INC. 0.29%
- AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION 0.23%
- SIMON PROPERTY GROUP, INC. 0.21%
- DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC. 0.19%
- BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY 0.14%
- CARRIER GLOBAL CORPORATION 0.13%
- VENTAS, INC. 0.13%
- NASDAQ, INC. 0.12%
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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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