ETF comparison
DFAC vs VB
US Total Market vs US Small Cap.
U.S. Core Equity 2 Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
1,068 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAC and VB would leave roughly 25.3% 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 15 bps cheaper than DFAC. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/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 VB.
Top shared holdings
1,068 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAC | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TAPESTRY, INC. | 0.16% | 0.36% | 0.16% |
| 2 | JABIL INC. | 0.12% | 0.49% | 0.12% |
| 3 | ATI INC | 0.10% | 0.33% | 0.10% |
| 4 | J. B. HUNT TRANSPORT SERVICES, INC. | 0.10% | 0.27% | 0.10% |
| 5 | EMCOR GROUP, INC. | 0.10% | 0.45% | 0.10% |
| 6 | WILLIAMS-SONOMA, INC. | 0.10% | 0.33% | 0.10% |
| 7 | HUBBELL INCORPORATED | 0.09% | 0.17% | 0.09% |
| 8 | REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC. | 0.09% | 0.46% | 0.09% |
| 9 | OMNICOM GROUP INC. | 0.09% | 0.25% | 0.09% |
| 10 | TECHNIPFMC PLC | 0.09% | 0.32% | 0.09% |
| 11 | TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION | 0.09% | 0.20% | 0.09% |
| 12 | FLEX LTD. | 0.09% | 0.36% | 0.09% |
Only in DFAC
1,477 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 5.27%
- APPLE INC. 5.12%
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 4.41%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.14%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.73%
- ALPHABET INC. 1.69%
- BROADCOM INC. 1.18%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.09%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.09%
- ALPHABET INC. 1.09%
Only in VB
241 total- RB Global Inc 0.26%
- Essex Property Trust Inc 0.23%
- Invitation Homes Inc 0.22%
- Weyerhaeuser Co 0.21%
- Kimco Realty Corp 0.21%
- Annaly Capital Management Inc 0.20%
- Host Hotels & Resorts Inc 0.20%
- Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc 0.20%
- WP Carey Inc 0.19%
- Sun Communities Inc 0.18%
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- DFAC vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 8.3%
- DFAC vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 6.8%
- DFAC vs DFAU · Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF 80.7%
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- VB vs DFUV · Dimensional US Marketwide Value ETF 20.9%
- VB vs DFSV · DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares 20.5%
- VB vs RSP · Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF 19.0%
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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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