ETF comparison
DFAU vs SPY
US Total Market vs US Large Cap.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
473 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and SPY would leave roughly 82.7% 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
SPY is 3 bps cheaper than DFAU. On a $100,000 position that's about $26/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 SPY.
Top shared holdings
473 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.74% | 8.50% | 6.74% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 7.32% | 6.45% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.09% | 5.77% | 5.09% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.59% | 3.71% | 3.59% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.74% | 3.03% | 2.74% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.34% | 2.54% | 2.34% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.28% | 2.43% | 2.28% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.79% | 2.41% | 1.79% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.39% | 1.82% | 1.39% |
| 10 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.28% | 1.33% | 1.28% |
| 11 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.24% | 1.37% | 1.24% |
| 12 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.11% | 1.41% | 1.11% |
Only in DFAU
1,717 total- CHENIERE ENERGY, INC. 0.11%
- ONEOK, INC. 0.11%
- SNOWFLAKE INC. 0.09%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.06%
- LPL FINANCIAL HOLDINGS INC. 0.06%
- TECHNIPFMC PLC 0.05%
- CLOUDFLARE, INC. 0.05%
- ZOOM COMMUNICATIONS, INC. 0.05%
- SHARKNINJA, INC. 0.05%
- BURLINGTON STORES, INC. 0.05%
Only in SPY
32 total- WELLTOWER INC 0.25%
- PROLOGIS INC 0.18%
- EQUINIX INC 0.15%
- AMERICAN TOWER CORP 0.11%
- SIMON PROPERTY GROUP INC 0.10%
- DIGITAL REALTY TRUST INC 0.09%
- ONEOK INC 0.08%
- REALTY INCOME CORP 0.08%
- PUBLIC STORAGE 0.07%
- VYLOR 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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