ETF comparison
DFAU vs IJH
US Total Market vs US Mid Cap.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
356 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and IJH would leave roughly 5.9% 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.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IJH is 7 bps cheaper than DFAU. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/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 IJH.
Top shared holdings
356 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In IJH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TECHNIPFMC PLC | 0.05% | 0.73% | 0.05% |
| 2 | SHARKNINJA, INC. | 0.05% | 0.30% | 0.05% |
| 3 | BURLINGTON STORES, INC. | 0.05% | 0.55% | 0.05% |
| 4 | TWILIO INC. | 0.05% | 0.86% | 0.05% |
| 5 | US FOODS HOLDING CORP. | 0.05% | 0.62% | 0.05% |
| 6 | TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION | 0.05% | 0.44% | 0.05% |
| 7 | OKTA, INC. | 0.05% | 0.63% | 0.05% |
| 8 | ILLUMINA, INC. | 0.04% | 0.73% | 0.04% |
| 9 | TD SYNNEX CORPORATION | 0.04% | 0.55% | 0.04% |
| 10 | Roivant Sciences Ltd | 0.04% | 0.44% | 0.04% |
| 11 | XPO, INC. | 0.04% | 0.66% | 0.04% |
| 12 | NVENT ELECTRIC PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 0.04% | 0.75% | 0.04% |
Only in DFAU
1,834 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 6.74%
- APPLE INC. 6.45%
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 5.09%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.59%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.74%
- BROADCOM INC. 2.34%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.28%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.79%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.39%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.28%
Only in IJH
44 total- RB GLOBAL INC 0.60%
- ANNALY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC 0.45%
- W.P. CAREY INC 0.44%
- OMEGA HEALTHCARE INVESTORS INC 0.39%
- LAMAR ADVERTISING COMPANY 0.37%
- GAMING AND LEISURE PROPERTIES INC 0.35%
- EQUITY LIFESTYLE PROPERTIES INC 0.34%
- CYTOKINETICS INC 0.32%
- EASTGROUP PROPERTIES INC 0.30%
- AMERICAN HOMES 4 RENT 0.29%
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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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