ETF comparison
DFAT vs SPSM
Both US Small Cap.
U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
357 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAT and SPSM would leave roughly 31.6% 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
SPSM is 26 bps cheaper than DFAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for DFAT.
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 DFAT vs SPSM.
Top shared holdings
357 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAT | In SPSM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JACKSON FINANCIAL INC. | 0.42% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 2 | LIFE TIME GROUP HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.35% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 3 | VIASAT, INC. | 0.33% | 0.66% | 0.33% |
| 4 | MOHAWK INDUSTRIES, INC. | 0.32% | 0.34% | 0.32% |
| 5 | LINCOLN NATIONAL CORPORATION | 0.31% | 0.33% | 0.31% |
| 6 | Matson Inc | 0.29% | 0.32% | 0.29% |
| 7 | AMERIS BANCORP | 0.28% | 0.31% | 0.28% |
| 8 | MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC. | 0.27% | 0.65% | 0.27% |
| 9 | EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY | 0.26% | 0.42% | 0.26% |
| 10 | NOBLE CORPORATION PLC | 0.24% | 0.25% | 0.24% |
| 11 | RUSH ENTERPRISES, INC. | 0.25% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 12 | PRICESMART, INC. | 0.24% | 0.27% | 0.24% |
Only in DFAT
846 total- PERMIAN RESOURCES CORPORATION 0.80%
- OVINTIV INC. 0.79%
- HF SINCLAIR CORPORATION 0.73%
- BALL CORPORATION 0.69%
- PERFORMANCE FOOD GROUP COMPANY 0.65%
- APA CORPORATION 0.63%
- TOLL BROTHERS, INC. 0.63%
- CNH Industrial N.V. 0.63%
- BORGWARNER INC. 0.62%
- THE J. M. SMUCKER COMPANY 0.61%
Only in SPSM
247 total- FormFactor Inc 0.68%
- Argan Inc 0.60%
- BrightSpring Health Services Inc 0.60%
- MaxLinear Inc 0.58%
- Krystal Biotech Inc 0.53%
- ESCO Technologies Inc 0.49%
- Match Group Inc 0.48%
- Everus Construction Group Inc 0.46%
- Corcept Therapeutics Inc 0.45%
- Ralliant Corp 0.45%
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- DFAT vs VIOO · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Index Fund ETF Shares 31.0%
- DFAT vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 30.8%
- DFAT vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 30.5%
- DFAT vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 29.9%
More comparisons with SPSM
- SPSM vs AVUV · Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF 28.4%
- SPSM vs VBR · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF 20.9%
- SPSM vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 19.0%
- SPSM vs VBK · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF 16.5%
- SPSM vs CALF · Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF 10.3%
- SPSM vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 2.6%
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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