ETF comparison
DFAU vs SUSA
Both US Total Market.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA ETF
Holdings overlap
183 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and SUSA would leave roughly 52.7% 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
DFAU is 13 bps cheaper than SUSA. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/yr more in fees for SUSA.
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 SUSA.
Top shared holdings
183 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In SUSA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.74% | 7.35% | 6.74% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 6.67% | 6.45% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.09% | 4.86% | 4.86% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.74% | 2.59% | 2.59% |
| 5 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.34% | 2.73% | 2.34% |
| 6 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.28% | 3.42% | 2.28% |
| 7 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.39% | 1.38% | 1.38% |
| 8 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.24% | 1.41% | 1.24% |
| 9 | TESLA, INC. | 1.08% | 1.36% | 1.08% |
| 10 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 0.86% | 1.33% | 0.86% |
| 11 | VISA INC. | 0.75% | 1.10% | 0.75% |
| 12 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 0.64% | 1.00% | 0.64% |
Only in DFAU
2,007 total- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.59%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.79%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.28%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.11%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.88%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.73%
- WALMART INC. 0.58%
- ABBVIE INC. 0.54%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION 0.50%
- CHEVRON CORPORATION 0.46%
Only in SUSA
10 total- EQUINIX, INC. 0.71%
- DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC. 0.49%
- WELLTOWER INC. 0.40%
- ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. 0.39%
- AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION 0.37%
- MercadoLibre, Inc. 0.31%
- CROWN CASTLE INC. 0.23%
- IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED 0.12%
- PROLOGIS, INC. 0.11%
- ROYALTY PHARMA PLC 0.11%
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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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