ETF comparison
DFAU vs ITOT
Both US Total Market.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,905 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and ITOT would leave roughly 86.4% 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
ITOT is 9 bps cheaper than DFAU. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/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 ITOT.
Top shared holdings
1,905 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In ITOT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.74% | 6.63% | 6.63% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 5.81% | 5.81% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.09% | 3.79% | 3.79% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.59% | 3.19% | 3.19% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.74% | 2.86% | 2.74% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.34% | 2.45% | 2.34% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.28% | 2.29% | 2.28% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.79% | 1.69% | 1.69% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.39% | 1.78% | 1.39% |
| 10 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.24% | 1.30% | 1.24% |
| 11 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.28% | 1.20% | 1.20% |
| 12 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.11% | 1.25% | 1.11% |
Only in DFAU
285 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.88%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.06%
- JAMES HARDIE INDUSTRIES PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.02%
- SOUTHERN COPPER CORPORATION 0.02%
- ICON PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.02%
- GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC. 0.02%
- JFROG LTD 0.01%
- GATES INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION PLC 0.01%
- Copa Holdings, S.A. 0.01%
- MOBILITY GLOBAL INC. 0.01%
Only in ITOT
593 total- Exxon Mobil Corp. 0.77%
- Welltower, Inc. 0.22%
- Prologis, Inc. 0.17%
- Equinix, Inc. 0.14%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 0.14%
- American Tower Corp. 0.10%
- Simon Property Group, Inc. 0.10%
- Digital Realty Trust, Inc. 0.08%
- Realty Income Corp. 0.08%
- Public Storage 0.07%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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