ETF comparison
AVUV vs VBR
Both US Small Cap.
Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF
Holdings overlap
243 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUV and VBR would leave roughly 15.0% 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
VBR is 20 bps cheaper than AVUV. On a $100,000 position that's about $200/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 VBR.
Top shared holdings
243 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUV | In VBR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viasat Inc | 1.39% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 2 | Ryder System Inc | 0.60% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 3 | Columbia Banking System Inc | 0.40% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 4 | EnerSys | 0.20% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 5 | Plexus Corp | 0.69% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 6 | Terex Corp | 0.39% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 7 | Axis Capital Holdings Ltd | 0.22% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 8 | Avnet Inc | 0.86% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 9 | Kirby Corp | 0.40% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 10 | OneMain Holdings Inc | 0.23% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 11 | Jackson Financial Inc | 0.38% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 12 | Valley National Bancorp | 0.27% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
Only in AVUV
553 total- StoneX Group Inc 0.77%
- Five Below Inc 0.72%
- Iridium Communications Inc 0.71%
- Lantheus Holdings Inc 0.70%
- Liberty Energy Inc 0.58%
- Noble Corp PLC 0.57%
- Kodiak Gas Services Inc 0.56%
- Cal-Maine Foods Inc 0.56%
- Oscar Health Inc 0.53%
- Alkermes PLC 0.51%
Only in VBR
597 total- Jabil Inc 0.87%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.66%
- Tapestry Inc 0.63%
- Atmos Energy Corp 0.62%
- Williams-Sonoma Inc 0.59%
- Moderna Inc 0.54%
- Smurfit Westrock PLC 0.52%
- F5 Inc 0.50%
- US Foods Holding Corp 0.48%
- JB Hunt Transport Services Inc 0.47%
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- AVUV vs CALF · Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF 14.4%
- AVUV vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 11.2%
- AVUV vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 9.1%
- AVUV vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 5.1%
- AVUV vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 2.1%
- AVUV vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 1.9%
More comparisons with VBR
- VBR vs IWO · iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF 10.2%
- VBR vs VIOG · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 10.1%
- VBR vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 10.0%
- VBR vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 9.8%
- VBR vs IJT · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF 9.5%
- VBR vs CALF · Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF 9.3%
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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