ETF comparison
DFAU vs SPTM
Both US Total Market.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,333 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and SPTM would leave roughly 86.1% 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
SPTM 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 SPTM.
Top shared holdings
1,333 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In SPTM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.74% | 6.92% | 6.74% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 6.07% | 6.07% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.09% | 3.96% | 3.96% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.59% | 3.33% | 3.33% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.74% | 2.99% | 2.74% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.34% | 2.56% | 2.34% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.28% | 2.38% | 2.28% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.79% | 1.76% | 1.76% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.39% | 1.86% | 1.39% |
| 10 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.28% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
| 11 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.24% | 1.35% | 1.24% |
| 12 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.11% | 1.31% | 1.11% |
Only in DFAU
857 total- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.88%
- CHENIERE ENERGY, INC. 0.11%
- SNOWFLAKE INC. 0.09%
- FERGUSON ENTERPRISES INC. 0.09%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.06%
- LPL FINANCIAL HOLDINGS INC. 0.06%
- BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION 0.05%
- CLOUDFLARE, INC. 0.05%
- ZOOM COMMUNICATIONS, INC. 0.05%
- REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC. 0.04%
Only in SPTM
175 total- Exxon Mobil Corp 0.81%
- Welltower Inc 0.22%
- Prologis Inc 0.18%
- Equinix Inc 0.14%
- American Tower Corp 0.11%
- Simon Property Group Inc 0.10%
- Digital Realty Trust Inc 0.08%
- Realty Income Corp 0.08%
- Public Storage 0.07%
- Electronic Arts Inc 0.07%
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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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