ETF comparison
DFAU vs IJR
US Total Market vs US Small Cap.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
505 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and IJR would leave roughly 2.9% 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
IJR is 6 bps cheaper than DFAU. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/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 IJR.
Top shared holdings
505 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In IJR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VIASAT, INC. | 0.02% | 0.66% | 0.02% |
| 2 | JACKSON FINANCIAL INC. | 0.02% | 0.16% | 0.02% |
| 3 | LIFE TIME GROUP HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.02% | 0.34% | 0.02% |
| 4 | BRIGHTSPRING HEALTH SERVICES, INC. | 0.02% | 0.60% | 0.02% |
| 5 | BRINKER INTERNATIONAL, INC. | 0.02% | 0.39% | 0.02% |
| 6 | LINCOLN NATIONAL CORPORATION | 0.02% | 0.27% | 0.02% |
| 7 | ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES, INC. | 0.02% | 0.37% | 0.02% |
| 8 | STONEX GROUP INC. | 0.02% | 0.46% | 0.02% |
| 9 | QORVO, INC. | 0.02% | 0.40% | 0.02% |
| 10 | MATCH GROUP, INC. | 0.02% | 0.48% | 0.02% |
| 11 | ELEMENT SOLUTIONS INC | 0.02% | 0.59% | 0.02% |
| 12 | POWELL INDUSTRIES, INC. | 0.02% | 0.44% | 0.02% |
Only in DFAU
1,685 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 IJR
98 total- MAXLINEAR INC 0.58%
- RYMAN HOSPITALITY PROPERTIES INC 0.44%
- PROTAGONIST THERAPEUTICS INC 0.40%
- MADISON SQUARE GARDEN SPORTS CORP 0.39%
- MACERICH COMPANY (THE) 0.39%
- GATES INDUSTRIAL CORP PLC 0.38%
- TERRENO REALTY CORP 0.37%
- ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES REALTY TRUST INC 0.35%
- MERITAGE HOMES CORP 0.30%
- PHILLIPS EDISON & COMPANY INC 0.28%
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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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