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DFAS vs IVV

US Small Cap vs US Large Cap.

U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · iShares Core S&P 500 ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.9 %

56 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAS and IVV would leave roughly 0.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

DFAS unmatched 99.0% Shared 0.9% IVV unmatched 98.9%

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.

In DFAS only
1,996 positions
Shared
56 positions
In IVV only
448 positions

Side by side

DFAS

U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares

Dimensional · US Small Cap

87 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.27%
Net assets
$18.54B
TTM yield
1.03%
Top-10 conc.
2.5%
IVV

iShares Core S&P 500 ETF

iShares · US Large Cap

91 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$881.27B
TTM yield
1.10%
Top-10 conc.
36.4%

Sub-score comparison

73
Cost
97
88
Tax efficiency
88
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
62
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Tracking quality
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DFAS sub-score IVV

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

IVV is 24 bps cheaper than DFAS. On a $100,000 position that's about $240/yr more in fees for DFAS.

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 DFAS vs IVV.

Top shared holdings

56 shared in total
# Holding In DFAS In IVV Overlap
1 MODERNA, INC. 0.07% 0.04% 0.04%
2 VIATRIS INC. 0.04% 0.03% 0.03%
3 GENERAC HOLDINGS INC. 0.16% 0.03% 0.03%
4 CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC. 0.03% 0.03% 0.03%
5 ALBEMARLE CORPORATION 0.08% 0.02% 0.02%
6 BEST BUY CO., INC. 0.05% 0.02% 0.02%
7 STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC. 0.14% 0.02% 0.02%
8 THE COOPER COMPANIES, INC. 0.03% 0.02% 0.02%
9 GLOBE LIFE INC. 0.20% 0.02% 0.02%
10 APTIV PLC 0.05% 0.02% 0.02%
11 PINNACLE WEST CAPITAL CORPORATION 0.16% 0.02% 0.02%
12 MCCORMICK & COMPANY, INCORPORATED 0.05% 0.02% 0.02%

Only in DFAS

1,996 total
  • HF SINCLAIR CORPORATION 0.29%
  • JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.28%
  • IES HOLDINGS, INC. 0.26%
  • ELANCO ANIMAL HEALTH INCORPORATED 0.26%
  • WESCO INTERNATIONAL, INC. 0.25%
  • BORGWARNER INC. 0.25%
  • APPLIED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 0.24%
  • TTM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 0.23%
  • Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. 0.23%
  • ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.22%

Only in IVV

448 total
  • NVIDIA Corp. 7.51%
  • Apple, Inc. 6.58%
  • Microsoft Corp. 4.29%
  • Amazon.com, Inc. 3.61%
  • Alphabet, Inc. 3.25%
  • Broadcom, Inc. 2.77%
  • Alphabet, Inc. 2.59%
  • Micron Technology, Inc. 2.02%
  • Meta Platforms, Inc. 1.92%
  • Tesla, Inc. 1.83%

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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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