ETF comparison
DFAU vs ESGU
Both US Total Market.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF
Holdings overlap
273 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and ESGU would leave roughly 69.9% 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.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
DFAU is 3 bps cheaper than ESGU. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for ESGU.
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 ESGU.
Top shared holdings
273 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In ESGU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.74% | 7.77% | 6.74% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 6.83% | 6.45% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.09% | 4.73% | 4.73% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.59% | 3.82% | 3.59% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.34% | 3.07% | 2.34% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.28% | 4.72% | 2.28% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.79% | 1.94% | 1.79% |
| 8 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.39% | 1.66% | 1.39% |
| 9 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.74% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.24% | 1.33% | 1.24% |
| 11 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.28% | 1.17% | 1.17% |
| 12 | TESLA, INC. | 1.08% | 1.85% | 1.08% |
Only in DFAU
1,917 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.88%
- WALMART INC. 0.58%
- Philip Morris International Inc. 0.35%
- THE BOEING COMPANY 0.19%
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION 0.19%
- SANDISK CORPORATION 0.19%
- MARATHON PETROLEUM CORPORATION 0.17%
- Chubb Limited 0.16%
- ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. 0.15%
- ROSS STORES, INC. 0.15%
Only in ESGU
14 total- EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION 0.69%
- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATION 0.47%
- EQUINIX, INC. 0.37%
- WELLTOWER INC. 0.34%
- AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION 0.29%
- PROLOGIS, INC. 0.26%
- DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC. 0.22%
- CROWN CASTLE INC. 0.20%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.15%
- ROYALTY PHARMA PLC 0.11%
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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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