ETF comparison
DFAC vs VUG
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
U.S. Core Equity 2 Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
137 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAC and VUG would leave roughly 36.8% 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
VUG 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
137 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAC | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 5.27% | 12.63% | 5.27% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 5.12% | 11.67% | 5.12% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.41% | 7.61% | 4.41% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.14% | 4.47% | 3.14% |
| 5 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.73% | 3.41% | 1.73% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.69% | 5.76% | 1.69% |
| 7 | BROADCOM INC. | 1.18% | 4.28% | 1.18% |
| 8 | ALPHABET INC. | 1.09% | 4.53% | 1.09% |
| 9 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.05% | 2.81% | 1.05% |
| 10 | VISA INC. | 0.70% | 1.54% | 0.70% |
| 11 | WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION | 0.62% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 12 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 0.53% | 1.13% | 0.53% |
Only in DFAC
2,408 total- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.09%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.09%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.84%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.82%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 0.75%
- CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 0.54%
- CHEVRON CORPORATION 0.52%
- THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY 0.47%
- MERCK & CO., INC. 0.46%
- ABBVIE INC. 0.44%
Only in VUG
9 total- Welltower Inc 0.46%
- Equinix Inc 0.30%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.14%
- Realty Income Corp 0.10%
- SBA Communications Corp 0.07%
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.06%
- Atlassian Corp 0.05%
- Cerebras Systems Inc 0.04%
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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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