ETF comparison
DFAT vs SPY
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap.
U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
43 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAT and SPY would leave roughly 0.7% 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 20 bps cheaper than DFAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $196/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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
43 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAT | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VIATRIS INC. | 0.35% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 2 | ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION | 0.21% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 3 | GENUINE PARTS COMPANY | 0.33% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 4 | CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.47% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 5 | IDEX CORPORATION | 0.10% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 6 | REVVITY, INC. | 0.35% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 0.28% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 8 | PTC INC. | 0.10% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 9 | APA CORPORATION | 0.63% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | BALL CORPORATION | 0.69% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | LEIDOS HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.11% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. | 0.34% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in DFAT
1,160 total- PERMIAN RESOURCES CORPORATION 0.80%
- OVINTIV INC. 0.79%
- HF SINCLAIR CORPORATION 0.73%
- PERFORMANCE FOOD GROUP COMPANY 0.65%
- TOLL BROTHERS, INC. 0.63%
- CNH Industrial N.V. 0.63%
- BORGWARNER INC. 0.62%
- ALLY FINANCIAL INC. 0.57%
- ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.54%
- FIRST HORIZON CORPORATION 0.54%
Only in SPY
462 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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