ETF comparison
DFAS vs VBK
Both US Small Cap.
U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
367 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAS and VBK would leave roughly 29.6% 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
VBK is 22 bps cheaper than DFAS. On a $100,000 position that's about $220/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 VBK.
Top shared holdings
367 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAS | In VBK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TTM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 0.23% | 0.55% | 0.23% |
| 2 | LITTELFUSE, INC. | 0.21% | 0.32% | 0.21% |
| 3 | EXELIXIS, INC. | 0.21% | 0.37% | 0.21% |
| 4 | ADVANCED ENERGY INDUSTRIES, INC. | 0.20% | 0.40% | 0.20% |
| 5 | ONTO INNOVATION INC. | 0.20% | 0.53% | 0.20% |
| 6 | Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. | 0.23% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 7 | MEDPACE HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.20% | 0.34% | 0.20% |
| 8 | SPX TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 0.20% | 0.35% | 0.20% |
| 9 | HECLA MINING COMPANY | 0.19% | 0.29% | 0.19% |
| 10 | THE ENSIGN GROUP, INC. | 0.19% | 0.26% | 0.19% |
| 11 | DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. | 0.19% | 0.24% | 0.19% |
| 12 | DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. | 0.19% | 0.37% | 0.19% |
Only in DFAS
1,685 total- HF SINCLAIR CORPORATION 0.29%
- JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.28%
- ELANCO ANIMAL HEALTH INCORPORATED 0.26%
- WESCO INTERNATIONAL, INC. 0.25%
- BORGWARNER INC. 0.25%
- APA CORPORATION 0.24%
- INVESCO LTD 0.24%
- CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. 0.22%
- ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.22%
- ARAMARK 0.22%
Only in VBK
176 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.27%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 1.06%
- Astera Labs Inc 1.05%
- Natera Inc 1.04%
- Twilio Inc 0.88%
- Casey's General Stores Inc 0.83%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.82%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.79%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.78%
- nVent Electric PLC 0.77%
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- VBK vs VIOO · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Index Fund ETF Shares 17.0%
- VBK vs SPSM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF 16.5%
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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