ETF comparison
AVUV vs DGRO
US Small Cap vs Dividend.
Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
37 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUV and DGRO would leave roughly 0.9% 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
DGRO is 17 bps cheaper than AVUV. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for AVUV.
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 DGRO.
Top shared holdings
37 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUV | In DGRO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First American Financial Corp | 0.26% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 2 | Zions Bancorp NA | 0.05% | 0.06% | 0.05% |
| 3 | Voya Financial Inc | 0.06% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 4 | Bank OZK | 0.55% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 5 | Ingredion Inc | 0.09% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 6 | Radian Group Inc | 0.54% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 7 | Hanover Insurance Group Inc/The | 0.50% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 8 | Matador Resources Co | 0.29% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 9 | Mueller Industries Inc | 0.07% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | MGIC Investment Corp | 0.51% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Essent Group Ltd | 0.46% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 12 | UMB Financial Corp | 0.06% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in AVUV
759 total- Viasat Inc 1.39%
- Matson Inc 0.98%
- Lear Corp 0.89%
- SM Energy Co 0.86%
- Macy's Inc 0.78%
- StoneX Group Inc 0.77%
- Five Below Inc 0.72%
- Iridium Communications Inc 0.71%
- Lantheus Holdings Inc 0.70%
- Plexus Corp 0.69%
Only in DGRO
353 total- MICROSOFT CORP 3.24%
- JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 3.16%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 3.07%
- ABBVIE INC 2.96%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORP 2.87%
- APPLE INC 2.86%
- BROADCOM INC 2.55%
- PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) 2.17%
- HOME DEPOT INC (THE) 2.14%
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 2.13%
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- DGRO vs IWN · iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF 0.7%
- DGRO vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 0.5%
- DGRO vs SPSM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF 0.5%
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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