ETF comparison
AVUV vs VB
Both US Small Cap.
Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
292 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUV and VB would leave roughly 11.2% 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 22 bps cheaper than AVUV. On a $100,000 position that's about $220/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 VB.
Top shared holdings
292 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUV | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viasat Inc | 1.39% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 2 | Argan Inc | 0.36% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 3 | Five Below Inc | 0.72% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 4 | Ryder System Inc | 0.60% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 5 | Columbia Banking System Inc | 0.40% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 6 | Alkermes PLC | 0.51% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 7 | EnerSys | 0.20% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 8 | StoneX Group Inc | 0.77% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 9 | Plexus Corp | 0.69% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 10 | Terex Corp | 0.39% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | Axis Capital Holdings Ltd | 0.22% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 12 | CarMax Inc | 0.45% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
Only in AVUV
504 total- Catalyst Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.48%
- Tutor Perini Corp 0.46%
- LivaNova PLC 0.44%
- Par Pacific Holdings Inc 0.34%
- NMI Holdings Inc 0.33%
- Photronics Inc 0.33%
- Bank of NT Butterfield & Son Ltd/The 0.29%
- Bancorp Inc/The 0.27%
- Scorpio Tankers Inc 0.27%
- SolarEdge Technologies Inc 0.27%
Only in VB
1,017 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
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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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