ETF comparison
DFAS vs VTWO
Both US Small Cap.
U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,395 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAS and VTWO would leave roughly 51.5% 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
VTWO is 21 bps cheaper than DFAS. On a $100,000 position that's about $210/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 VTWO.
Top shared holdings
1,395 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAS | In VTWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TTM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 0.23% | 0.52% | 0.23% |
| 2 | UMB FINANCIAL CORPORATION | 0.21% | 0.28% | 0.21% |
| 3 | MOOG INC. | 0.21% | 0.30% | 0.21% |
| 4 | ADVANCED ENERGY INDUSTRIES, INC. | 0.20% | 0.33% | 0.20% |
| 5 | SANMINA CORPORATION | 0.20% | 0.41% | 0.20% |
| 6 | SPX TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 0.20% | 0.31% | 0.20% |
| 7 | HECLA MINING COMPANY | 0.19% | 0.33% | 0.19% |
| 8 | THE ENSIGN GROUP, INC. | 0.19% | 0.28% | 0.19% |
| 9 | DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. | 0.19% | 0.35% | 0.19% |
| 10 | OLD NATIONAL BANCORP | 0.19% | 0.25% | 0.19% |
| 11 | VIASAT, INC. | 0.19% | 0.29% | 0.19% |
| 12 | FIRSTCASH HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.19% | 0.26% | 0.19% |
Only in DFAS
657 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%
- APPLIED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 0.24%
- APA CORPORATION 0.24%
- INVESCO LTD 0.24%
- Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. 0.23%
- CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. 0.22%
Only in VTWO
550 total- Bloom Energy Corp 1.83%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.12%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.75%
- Fabrinet 0.69%
- IonQ Inc 0.63%
- EchoStar Corp 0.51%
- Guardant Health Inc 0.47%
- Applied Digital Corp 0.33%
- D-Wave Quantum Inc 0.32%
- Bridgebio Pharma Inc 0.31%
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- DFAS vs DFAT · U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 49.9%
- DFAS vs VBR · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF 49.5%
- DFAS vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 44.9%
- DFAS vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 43.4%
More comparisons with VTWO
- VTWO vs IWO · iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF 45.4%
- VTWO vs IWN · iShares Russell 2000 Value ETF 45.4%
- VTWO vs VIOO · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Index Fund ETF Shares 40.9%
- VTWO vs SPSM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF 40.4%
- VTWO vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 40.2%
- VTWO vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 38.3%
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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