ETF comparison
DFAT vs VTWO
Both US Small Cap.
U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
828 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAT and VTWO would leave roughly 30.5% 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
VTWO is 23 bps cheaper than DFAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $230/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 VTWO.
Top shared holdings
828 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAT | In VTWO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VIASAT, INC. | 0.33% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 2 | UMB FINANCIAL CORPORATION | 0.33% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 3 | COMMERCIAL METALS COMPANY | 0.38% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 4 | OLD NATIONAL BANCORP | 0.36% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 5 | SM ENERGY COMPANY | 0.22% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 6 | ENERSYS | 0.21% | 0.25% | 0.21% |
| 7 | JACKSON FINANCIAL INC. | 0.42% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 8 | VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP | 0.32% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 9 | ARCOSA, INC. | 0.18% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 10 | GATX CORPORATION | 0.18% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 11 | UNITED BANKSHARES, INC. | 0.28% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 12 | TEREX CORPORATION | 0.18% | 0.19% | 0.18% |
Only in DFAT
375 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 VTWO
1,117 total- Bloom Energy Corp 1.83%
- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.12%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.75%
- Fabrinet 0.69%
- Nextpower Inc 0.67%
- IonQ Inc 0.63%
- EchoStar Corp 0.51%
- Guardant Health Inc 0.47%
- SiTime Corp 0.47%
- Rambus Inc 0.46%
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- VTWO vs IJT · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF 26.1%
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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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