ETF comparison
DFAU vs DSI
Both US Total Market.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · iShares ESG MSCI KLD 400 ETF
Holdings overlap
372 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and DSI would leave roughly 48.1% 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
DFAU is 13 bps cheaper than DSI. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/yr more in fees for DSI.
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 DSI.
Top shared holdings
372 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In DSI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.74% | 13.42% | 6.74% |
| 2 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.09% | 9.49% | 5.09% |
| 3 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.74% | 6.00% | 2.74% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.28% | 4.77% | 2.28% |
| 5 | TESLA, INC. | 1.08% | 2.54% | 1.08% |
| 6 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 0.86% | 2.25% | 0.86% |
| 7 | VISA INC. | 0.75% | 1.78% | 0.75% |
| 8 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 0.64% | 1.36% | 0.64% |
| 9 | ABBVIE INC. | 0.54% | 1.29% | 0.54% |
| 10 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.53% | 1.33% | 0.53% |
| 11 | MERCK & CO., INC. | 0.50% | 0.93% | 0.50% |
| 12 | THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY | 0.49% | 0.97% | 0.49% |
Only in DFAU
1,818 total- APPLE INC. 6.45%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.59%
- BROADCOM INC. 2.34%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.79%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.39%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.28%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 1.24%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.11%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.88%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.73%
Only in DSI
30 total- WELLTOWER INC. 0.48%
- PROLOGIS, INC. 0.39%
- EQUINIX, INC. 0.29%
- AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION 0.23%
- SIMON PROPERTY GROUP, INC. 0.21%
- DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC. 0.19%
- ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. 0.14%
- VENTAS, INC. 0.13%
- IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED 0.11%
- CROWN CASTLE INC. 0.10%
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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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