ETF comparison
DFAI vs VSS
Both International Developed.
Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF · Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,502 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAI and VSS would leave roughly 7.9% 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
Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VSS is 12 bps cheaper than DFAI. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for DFAI.
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 DFAI vs VSS.
Top shared holdings
1,502 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAI | In VSS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suruga Bank Ltd. | 0.05% | 0.06% | 0.05% |
| 2 | BABCOCK INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC | 0.05% | 0.09% | 0.05% |
| 3 | FINNING INTERNATIONAL INC. | 0.04% | 0.24% | 0.04% |
| 4 | STOREBRAND ASA | 0.04% | 0.24% | 0.04% |
| 5 | Games Workshop Group PLC | 0.04% | 0.24% | 0.04% |
| 6 | Aritzia Inc. | 0.04% | 0.27% | 0.04% |
| 7 | Accelleron Industries AG | 0.03% | 0.24% | 0.03% |
| 8 | CAPITAL POWER CORPORATION | 0.03% | 0.21% | 0.03% |
| 9 | CAPSTONE COPPER CORP. | 0.03% | 0.18% | 0.03% |
| 10 | Subsea 7 S.A. | 0.03% | 0.21% | 0.03% |
| 11 | GAZTRANSPORT ET TECHNIGAZ SA | 0.03% | 0.23% | 0.03% |
| 12 | TAMARACK VALLEY ENERGY LTD. | 0.03% | 0.13% | 0.03% |
Only in DFAI
2,172 total- ASML Holding N.V. 1.63%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.16%
- Roche Holding AG 1.05%
- SHELL PLC 1.01%
- Nestle S.A. 0.84%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.81%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 0.76%
- Novartis AG 0.67%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 0.63%
- TOTALENERGIES SE 0.62%
Only in VSS
3,316 total- Taiwan Union Technology Corp 0.24%
- Aedifica SA 0.21%
- Kinsus Interconnect Technology Corp 0.18%
- LondonMetric Property PLC 0.17%
- abrdn plc 0.17%
- PrairieSky Royalty Ltd 0.16%
- G Mining Ventures Corp 0.16%
- Balfour Beatty PLC 0.16%
- NexGen Energy Ltd 0.16%
- Tritax Big Box REIT PLC 0.16%
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- DFAI vs BBAX · JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF 6.6%
- DFAI vs EWG · iShares MSCI Germany ETF 6.6%
More comparisons with VSS
- VSS vs VXUS · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares 7.9%
- VSS vs VWO · Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 7.8%
- VSS vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 7.7%
- VSS vs VGK · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF 7.5%
- VSS vs VPL · Vanguard FTSE Pacific Index Fund ETF Shares 7.3%
- VSS vs IDEV · iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF 7.2%
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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