ETF comparison
DFAS vs SPY
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap.
U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
54 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAS and SPY would leave roughly 0.9% 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
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPY is 18 bps cheaper than DFAS. On a $100,000 position that's about $176/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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
54 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAS | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MODERNA, INC. | 0.07% | 0.11% | 0.07% |
| 2 | VIATRIS INC. | 0.04% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 3 | ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION | 0.09% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 4 | BEST BUY CO., INC. | 0.05% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 5 | CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.03% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 6 | REVVITY, INC. | 0.18% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | APA CORPORATION | 0.24% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 8 | CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. | 0.22% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 9 | STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC. | 0.14% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | INVESCO LTD | 0.24% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | TRIMBLE INC. | 0.07% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | ASSURANT, INC. | 0.17% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in DFAS
1,998 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 SPY
451 total- NVIDIA CORP 8.50%
- APPLE INC 7.32%
- MICROSOFT CORP 5.77%
- AMAZON.COM INC 3.71%
- ALPHABET INC CL A 3.03%
- BROADCOM INC 2.54%
- ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43%
- META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.41%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
- TESLA INC 1.57%
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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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