ETF comparison
AVUS vs VB
US Total Market vs US Small Cap.
Holdings overlap
877 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and VB would leave roughly 17.1% 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
VB 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 VB.
Top shared holdings
877 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flex Ltd | 0.28% | 0.36% | 0.28% |
| 2 | EMCOR Group Inc | 0.16% | 0.45% | 0.16% |
| 3 | TechnipFMC PLC | 0.16% | 0.32% | 0.16% |
| 4 | Jabil Inc | 0.15% | 0.49% | 0.15% |
| 5 | Centene Corp | 0.14% | 0.19% | 0.14% |
| 6 | Sterling Infrastructure Inc | 0.14% | 0.30% | 0.14% |
| 7 | Nextpower Inc | 0.13% | 0.21% | 0.13% |
| 8 | Steel Dynamics Inc | 0.13% | 0.19% | 0.13% |
| 9 | Williams-Sonoma Inc | 0.12% | 0.33% | 0.12% |
| 10 | EQT Corp | 0.12% | 0.20% | 0.12% |
| 11 | Expand Energy Corp | 0.12% | 0.27% | 0.12% |
| 12 | Tapestry Inc | 0.11% | 0.36% | 0.11% |
Only in AVUS
996 total- NVIDIA Corp 5.48%
- Apple Inc 5.36%
- Microsoft Corp 3.84%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.67%
- Alphabet Inc 2.41%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.40%
- Meta Platforms Inc 2.21%
- Alphabet Inc 1.94%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.20%
- Broadcom Inc 1.18%
Only in VB
432 total- Natera Inc 0.45%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.34%
- Entegris Inc 0.33%
- RB Global Inc 0.26%
- Lattice Semiconductor Corp 0.25%
- Omnicom Group Inc 0.25%
- Liberty Media Corp-Liberty Formula One 0.25%
- Guardant Health Inc 0.23%
- Essex Property Trust Inc 0.23%
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- AVUS vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 4.5%
- AVUS vs DFAU · Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF 76.7%
- AVUS vs DFAC · U.S. Core Equity 2 Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 76.4%
More comparisons with VB
- VB vs PRF · Invesco RAFI US 1000 ETF 16.1%
- VB vs JQUA · JPMorgan U.S. Quality Factor ETF 16.0%
- VB vs IWO · iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF 15.5%
- VB vs IWN · iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF 14.9%
- VB vs AVLV · Avantis US Large Cap Value ETF 14.0%
- VB vs VONV · Vanguard Russell 1000 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 13.6%
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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