ETF comparison
DFAT vs VBK
Both US Small Cap.
U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
109 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAT and VBK would leave roughly 6.7% 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
VBK is 24 bps cheaper than DFAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $240/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 VBK.
Top shared holdings
109 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAT | In VBK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. | 0.39% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 2 | PERMIAN RESOURCES CORPORATION | 0.80% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 3 | Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. | 0.41% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 4 | KNIGHT-SWIFT TRANSPORTATION HOLDINGS INC. | 0.49% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 5 | LIFE TIME GROUP HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.35% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 6 | STANDARDAERO, INC. | 0.15% | 0.21% | 0.15% |
| 7 | GLOBUS MEDICAL, INC. | 0.15% | 0.25% | 0.15% |
| 8 | GENTEX CORPORATION | 0.17% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 9 | ANTERO RESOURCES CORPORATION | 0.50% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 10 | ACI WORLDWIDE, INC. | 0.15% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 11 | Transocean Ltd. | 0.19% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 12 | HERC HOLDINGS INC. | 0.19% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
Only in DFAT
1,094 total- 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%
- ALLY FINANCIAL INC. 0.57%
Only in VBK
434 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 CALF · Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF 6.4%
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- VBK vs AVUV · Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF 5.1%
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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