ETF comparison
AVUS vs ITOT
Both US Total Market.
Avantis US Equity ETF · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,669 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and ITOT would leave roughly 74.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
ITOT is 12 bps cheaper than AVUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/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 ITOT.
Top shared holdings
1,669 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In ITOT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc | 4.87% | 5.88% | 4.87% |
| 2 | NVIDIA Corp | 4.73% | 6.69% | 4.73% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 3.53% | 4.34% | 3.53% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.12% | 3.21% | 3.12% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.58% | 2.64% | 2.58% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc | 2.07% | 2.12% | 2.07% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.40% | 1.98% | 1.98% |
| 8 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.31% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
| 9 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 1.17% | 1.12% | 1.12% |
| 10 | Broadcom Inc | 1.00% | 2.32% | 1.00% |
| 11 | Tesla Inc | 0.80% | 1.65% | 0.80% |
| 12 | Eli Lilly & Co | 0.79% | 1.15% | 0.79% |
Only in AVUS
260 total- MercadoLibre Inc 0.14%
- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund 0.07%
- Corebridge Financial Inc 0.03%
- NU Holdings Ltd/Cayman Islands 0.03%
- Hess Midstream LP 0.02%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.02%
- Sunococorp LLC 0.02%
- Bank of NT Butterfield & Son Ltd/The 0.02%
- Piper Sandler Cos 0.01%
- Teekay Tankers Ltd 0.01%
Only in ITOT
821 total- BlackRock Funds III 1.15%
- Philip Morris International, Inc. 0.41%
- Welltower, Inc. 0.22%
- Prologis, Inc. 0.19%
- BlackRock Funds III 0.19%
- Altria Group, Inc. 0.17%
- Equinix, Inc. 0.15%
- American Tower Corp. 0.13%
- Simon Property Group, Inc. 0.10%
- Digital Realty Trust, Inc. 0.09%
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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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