ETF comparison
DFAU vs IWF
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
330 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and IWF would leave roughly 50.0% 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
DFAU is 6 bps cheaper than IWF. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for IWF.
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 IWF.
Top shared holdings
330 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In IWF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.74% | 13.83% | 6.74% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 6.72% | 6.45% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.09% | 4.11% | 4.11% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.74% | 6.17% | 2.74% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.34% | 5.21% | 2.34% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.28% | 4.98% | 2.28% |
| 7 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.79% | 3.00% | 1.79% |
| 8 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.39% | 3.86% | 1.39% |
| 9 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.24% | 2.84% | 1.24% |
| 10 | TESLA, INC. | 1.08% | 3.64% | 1.08% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 0.86% | 2.80% | 0.86% |
| 12 | VISA INC. | 0.75% | 1.68% | 0.75% |
Only in DFAU
1,860 total- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.28%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.11%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.88%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.73%
- CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 0.53%
- MERCK & CO., INC. 0.50%
- THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY 0.49%
- CHEVRON CORPORATION 0.46%
- INTEL CORPORATION 0.46%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED 0.41%
Only in IWF
38 total- SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP. 0.24%
- SIMON PROPERTY GROUP, INC. 0.21%
- AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION 0.15%
- Nu Holdings Ltd. 0.14%
- ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI PLC 0.11%
- Viking Holdings Ltd 0.05%
- BROOKFIELD ASSET MANAGEMENT LTD. 0.05%
- Restaurant Brands International Inc. 0.04%
- ATLASSIAN CORPORATION 0.04%
- ASCENDIS PHARMA A/S 0.04%
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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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