ETF comparison
DFAU vs ESGV
Both US Total Market.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
1,008 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and ESGV would leave roughly 75.8% 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
ESGV is 3 bps cheaper than DFAU. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/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 ESGV.
Top shared holdings
1,008 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In ESGV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.74% | 8.37% | 6.74% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 7.62% | 6.45% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.09% | 5.66% | 5.09% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.59% | 4.40% | 3.59% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.74% | 3.74% | 2.74% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.34% | 3.50% | 2.34% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.28% | 3.02% | 2.28% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.79% | 2.34% | 1.79% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.39% | 1.84% | 1.39% |
| 10 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.28% | 1.29% | 1.28% |
| 11 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.24% | 1.50% | 1.24% |
| 12 | TESLA, INC. | 1.08% | 2.08% | 1.08% |
Only in DFAU
1,182 total- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.11%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.88%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.73%
- WALMART INC. 0.58%
- CHEVRON CORPORATION 0.46%
- CATERPILLAR INC. 0.45%
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 0.44%
- WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.36%
- Philip Morris International Inc. 0.35%
- RTX CORPORATION 0.35%
Only in ESGV
226 total- Welltower Inc 0.24%
- Prologis Inc 0.23%
- Equinix Inc 0.18%
- American Tower Corp 0.15%
- MercadoLibre Inc 0.14%
- Simon Property Group Inc 0.11%
- Digital Realty Trust Inc 0.11%
- Realty Income Corp 0.10%
- Electronic Arts Inc 0.09%
- Strategy Inc 0.08%
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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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