ETF comparison
AVUS vs VTHR
Both US Total Market.
Avantis US Equity ETF · Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,788 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and VTHR would leave roughly 73.6% 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
VTHR is 9 bps cheaper than AVUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/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 VTHR.
Top shared holdings
1,788 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In VTHR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.48% | 6.81% | 5.48% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 5.36% | 6.20% | 5.36% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 3.84% | 4.60% | 3.84% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.67% | 3.58% | 3.58% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.41% | 3.05% | 2.41% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc | 1.94% | 2.46% | 1.94% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.21% | 1.90% | 1.90% |
| 8 | Micron Technology Inc | 2.40% | 1.50% | 1.50% |
| 9 | Broadcom Inc | 1.18% | 2.84% | 1.18% |
| 10 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.20% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 11 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 1.07% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
| 12 | Eli Lilly & Co | 0.84% | 1.22% | 0.84% |
Only in AVUS
85 total- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 0.24%
- TE Connectivity PLC 0.12%
- MercadoLibre Inc 0.11%
- Autoliv Inc 0.05%
- NXP Semiconductors NV 0.05%
- Paramount Skydance Corp 0.03%
- SolarEdge Technologies Inc 0.03%
- CoreWeave Inc 0.03%
- Hess Midstream LP 0.02%
- Federated Hermes Inc 0.02%
Only in VTHR
1,116 total- Philip Morris International Inc 0.38%
- Welltower Inc 0.19%
- Prologis Inc 0.18%
- Altria Group Inc 0.16%
- Equinix Inc 0.14%
- American Tower Corp 0.12%
- Spotify Technology SA 0.11%
- Simon Property Group Inc 0.09%
- Digital Realty Trust Inc 0.09%
- Realty Income Corp 0.08%
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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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