ETF comparison
DFAU vs DGRO
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
384 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and DGRO would leave roughly 42.8% 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
DGRO is 4 bps cheaper than DFAU. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for DFAU.
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 DFAU vs DGRO.
Top shared holdings
384 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In DGRO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.09% | 3.24% | 3.24% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 2.86% | 2.86% |
| 3 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.34% | 2.55% | 2.34% |
| 4 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.28% | 3.16% | 1.28% |
| 5 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.24% | 1.19% | 1.19% |
| 6 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION | 0.88% | 2.87% | 0.88% |
| 7 | VISA INC. | 0.75% | 1.10% | 0.75% |
| 8 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.73% | 3.07% | 0.73% |
| 9 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 0.64% | 0.72% | 0.64% |
| 10 | WALMART INC. | 0.58% | 0.87% | 0.58% |
| 11 | ABBVIE INC. | 0.54% | 2.96% | 0.54% |
| 12 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.53% | 1.33% | 0.53% |
Only in DFAU
1,806 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 6.74%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.59%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.74%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.28%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.79%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.39%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.11%
- TESLA, INC. 1.08%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 0.86%
- CHEVRON CORPORATION 0.46%
Only in DGRO
6 total- ROYALTY PHARMA PLC 0.08%
- FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC 0.04%
- TXNM ENERGY INC 0.04%
- MARKETAXESS HOLDINGS INC 0.02%
- STEPSTONE GROUP INC 0.02%
- BROWN-FORMAN CORP 0.01%
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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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