ETF comparison
DFAC vs ITOT
Both US Total Market.
Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,991 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAC and ITOT would leave roughly 74.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
ITOT is 14 bps cheaper than DFAC. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/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 ITOT.
Top shared holdings
1,991 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAC | In ITOT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 5.60% | 6.69% | 5.60% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 4.68% | 5.88% | 4.68% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 3.92% | 4.34% | 3.92% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.06% | 3.21% | 3.06% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.14% | 2.64% | 2.14% |
| 6 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.87% | 1.98% | 1.87% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.69% | 2.12% | 1.69% |
| 8 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.00% | 1.25% | 1.00% |
| 9 | BROADCOM INC. | 0.95% | 2.32% | 0.95% |
| 10 | EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION | 0.88% | 1.12% | 0.88% |
| 11 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 0.87% | 1.15% | 0.87% |
| 12 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.82% | 0.93% | 0.82% |
Only in DFAC
552 total- DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP 3.35%
- COREBRIDGE FINANCIAL, INC. 0.07%
- GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC. 0.03%
- Amdocs Limited 0.03%
- SCORPIO TANKERS INC. 0.02%
- BIRKENSTOCK HOLDING PLC 0.02%
- SOUTHERN COPPER CORPORATION 0.02%
- DHT HOLDINGS, INC. 0.02%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.02%
- Copa Holdings, S.A. 0.02%
Only in ITOT
499 total- BlackRock Funds III 1.15%
- Welltower, Inc. 0.22%
- Prologis, Inc. 0.19%
- BlackRock Funds III 0.19%
- Equinix, Inc. 0.15%
- American Tower Corp. 0.13%
- Simon Property Group, Inc. 0.10%
- Digital Realty Trust, Inc. 0.09%
- Realty Income Corp. 0.09%
- Public Storage 0.07%
Open DFAC or ITOT at a brokerage
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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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