ETF comparison
DFAU vs SCHD
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
95 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and SCHD would leave roughly 7.9% 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
SCHD 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 SCHD.
Top shared holdings
95 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In SCHD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MERCK & CO., INC. | 0.50% | 3.86% | 0.50% |
| 2 | THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY | 0.49% | 3.55% | 0.49% |
| 3 | THE HOME DEPOT, INC. | 0.46% | 3.36% | 0.46% |
| 4 | CHEVRON CORPORATION | 0.46% | 3.83% | 0.46% |
| 5 | THE COCA-COLA COMPANY | 0.46% | 3.96% | 0.46% |
| 6 | UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED | 0.41% | 5.09% | 0.41% |
| 7 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. | 0.34% | 3.65% | 0.34% |
| 8 | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED | 0.32% | 5.90% | 0.32% |
| 9 | AMGEN INC. | 0.31% | 3.47% | 0.31% |
| 10 | Pepsico, Inc. | 0.25% | 3.44% | 0.25% |
| 11 | QUALCOMM INCORPORATED | 0.24% | 6.74% | 0.24% |
| 12 | CONOCOPHILLIPS | 0.23% | 3.51% | 0.23% |
Only in DFAU
2,095 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 SCHD
4 total- Flowers Foods Inc 0.04%
- Insperity Inc 0.03%
- Wendy's Co/The 0.03%
- CNA Financial Corp 0.02%
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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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