ETF comparison
DFAC vs DFUS
Both US Total Market.
U.S. Core Equity 2 Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF
Holdings overlap
2,194 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAC and DFUS would leave roughly 74.6% 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
DFUS is 9 bps cheaper than DFAC. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/yr more in fees for DFAC.
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 DFAC vs DFUS.
Top shared holdings
2,194 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAC | In DFUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 5.27% | 6.75% | 5.27% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 5.12% | 6.45% | 5.12% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.41% | 4.99% | 4.41% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.14% | 3.83% | 3.14% |
| 5 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.73% | 1.77% | 1.73% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.69% | 3.00% | 1.69% |
| 7 | BROADCOM INC. | 1.18% | 2.63% | 1.18% |
| 8 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.09% | 1.37% | 1.09% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.09% | 1.35% | 1.09% |
| 10 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.09% | 2.48% | 1.09% |
| 11 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.05% | 1.33% | 1.05% |
| 12 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.84% | 0.90% | 0.84% |
Only in DFAC
351 total- BOYD GAMING CORPORATION 0.01%
- Twist Bioscience Corp 0.01%
- MAXLINEAR, INC. 0.01%
- DIGITALBRIDGE GROUP, INC. 0.01%
- COMPASS, INC 0.01%
- COMMVAULT SYSTEMS, INC. 0.01%
- PERRIGO COMPANY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.01%
- ARRAY DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE, INC. 0.01%
- CALUMET, INC. 0.00%
- KEMPER CORPORATION 0.00%
Only in DFUS
40 total- ACCENTURE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.12%
- APPLIED DIGITAL CORPORATION 0.01%
- TERAWULF INC. 0.01%
- THE TRADE DESK, INC. 0.00%
- SOLAREDGE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 0.00%
- ATLASSIAN CORPORATION 0.00%
- ALBERTSONS COMPANIES, INC. 0.00%
- THE CAMPBELL'S COMPANY 0.00%
- AnaptysBio Inc 0.00%
- FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.00%
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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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