ETF comparison
AVUV vs DFSV
Both US Small Cap.
Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF · DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares
Holdings overlap
560 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUV and DFSV would leave roughly 41.9% 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
AVUV is 6 bps cheaper than DFSV. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for DFSV.
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 AVUV vs DFSV.
Top shared holdings
560 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUV | In DFSV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viasat Inc | 1.39% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 2 | Avnet Inc | 0.86% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
| 3 | NOV Inc | 0.58% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 4 | MGIC Investment Corp | 0.51% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 5 | Macy's Inc | 0.78% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 6 | CarMax Inc | 0.45% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 7 | Lear Corp | 0.89% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 8 | Columbia Banking System Inc | 0.40% | 0.59% | 0.40% |
| 9 | Matson Inc | 0.98% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 10 | Hancock Whitney Corp | 0.41% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 11 | Essent Group Ltd | 0.46% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 12 | Noble Corp PLC | 0.57% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
Only in AVUV
236 total- StoneX Group Inc 0.77%
- Five Below Inc 0.72%
- Iridium Communications Inc 0.71%
- Lantheus Holdings Inc 0.70%
- Plexus Corp 0.69%
- Archrock Inc 0.61%
- PriceSmart Inc 0.60%
- Weatherford International PLC 0.57%
- Kodiak Gas Services Inc 0.56%
- Axos Financial Inc 0.56%
Only in DFSV
434 total- INVESCO LTD 0.76%
- HF SINCLAIR CORPORATION 0.75%
- BORGWARNER INC. 0.75%
- KNIGHT-SWIFT TRANSPORTATION HOLDINGS INC. 0.70%
- OVINTIV INC. 0.70%
- APA CORPORATION 0.66%
- ELANCO ANIMAL HEALTH INCORPORATED 0.64%
- WESCO INTERNATIONAL, INC. 0.62%
- SOUTHSTATE BANK CORPORATION 0.61%
- OLD NATIONAL BANCORP 0.59%
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- AVUV vs VIOV · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 30.7%
- AVUV vs VIOO · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Index Fund ETF Shares 29.3%
- AVUV vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 29.2%
- AVUV vs SPSM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF 28.4%
More comparisons with DFSV
- DFSV vs DFAS · U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 40.6%
- DFSV vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 33.6%
- DFSV vs VIOV · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 32.9%
- DFSV vs SPSM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF 32.0%
- DFSV vs VIOO · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Index Fund ETF Shares 31.9%
- DFSV vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 31.1%
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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