ETF comparison
DFAT vs VO
US Small Cap vs US Mid Cap.
U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAT and VO would leave roughly 0.2% 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
VO 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 VO.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAT | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MCCORMICK & COMPANY, INCORPORATED | 0.19% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 2 | LULULEMON ATHLETICA INC. | 0.08% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 3 | SS&C TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.06% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 4 | ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.02% | 0.08% | 0.02% |
Only in DFAT
1,199 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 VO
278 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
- Cummins Inc 0.95%
- Datadog Inc 0.83%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open DFAT or VO at a brokerage
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.