ETF comparison
DFAT vs VTI
US Small Cap vs US Total Market.
U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,121 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAT and VTI would leave roughly 4.3% 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
VTI 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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
1,121 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAT | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TD SYNNEX CORPORATION | 0.33% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 2 | VIATRIS INC. | 0.35% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 3 | EAST WEST BANCORP, INC. | 0.14% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 4 | AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 0.28% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 5 | WESCO INTERNATIONAL, INC. | 0.53% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 6 | IDEX CORPORATION | 0.10% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 7 | PERFORMANCE FOOD GROUP COMPANY | 0.65% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 8 | CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.47% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 9 | BALL CORPORATION | 0.69% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | GENUINE PARTS COMPANY | 0.33% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION | 0.14% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | TEXTRON INC. | 0.17% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in DFAT
82 total- Amdocs Limited 0.22%
- SCORPIO TANKERS INC. 0.20%
- Copa Holdings, S.A. 0.20%
- BIRKENSTOCK HOLDING PLC 0.19%
- GATES INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION PLC 0.16%
- DHT HOLDINGS, INC. 0.15%
- AUTOLIV, INC. 0.14%
- ICON PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.13%
- Teekay Tankers Ltd. 0.12%
- LIVANOVA PLC 0.11%
Only in VTI
2,383 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.36%
- Apple Inc 5.87%
- Microsoft Corp 3.83%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Broadcom Inc 2.47%
- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.71%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
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- DFAT vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 2.2%
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- DFAT vs SPYM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF 0.8%
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- VTI vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 4.2%
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- VTI vs DON · WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Dividend Fund 3.7%
- VTI vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 3.6%
- VTI vs IJK · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF 3.4%
- VTI vs IJJ · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF 3.3%
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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