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DFAS vs VTV

US Small Cap vs US Value.

U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAS and VTV would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

DFAS unmatched 99.9% Shared 0.0% VTV unmatched 99.5%

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
2,051 positions
Shared
1 positions
In VTV only
307 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
1.02%
Top-10 conc.
2.5%
VTV

Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF

Vanguard · US Value

93 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$251.72B
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
1.84%
Top-10 conc.
23.6%

Sub-score comparison

73
Cost
97
88
Tax efficiency
87
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
81
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Tracking quality
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DFAS sub-score VTV

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

Cost difference

VTV 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 VTV.

Top shared holdings

1 shared in total
# Holding In DFAS In VTV Overlap
1 MCCORMICK & COMPANY, INCORPORATED 0.05% 0.02% 0.02%

Only in DFAS

2,051 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%
  • APA CORPORATION 0.24%
  • INVESCO LTD 0.24%
  • TTM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 0.23%

Only in VTV

307 total
  • Micron Technology Inc 4.87%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.06%
  • Berkshire Hathaway Inc 2.95%
  • Johnson & Johnson 2.29%
  • Exxon Mobil Corp 2.12%
  • Walmart Inc 1.86%
  • Caterpillar Inc 1.83%
  • AbbVie Inc 1.66%
  • Cisco Systems Inc 1.56%
  • UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.41%

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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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