ETF comparison
DFAU vs VB
US Total Market vs US Small Cap.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
1,034 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and VB would leave roughly 13.0% 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
VB 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 VB.
Top shared holdings
1,034 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NRG ENERGY, INC. | 0.07% | 0.37% | 0.07% |
| 2 | FLEX LTD. | 0.07% | 0.36% | 0.07% |
| 3 | JABIL INC. | 0.06% | 0.49% | 0.06% |
| 4 | EMCOR GROUP, INC. | 0.06% | 0.45% | 0.06% |
| 5 | EQT CORPORATION | 0.06% | 0.20% | 0.06% |
| 6 | STEEL DYNAMICS, INC. | 0.06% | 0.19% | 0.06% |
| 7 | CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, INC. | 0.05% | 0.36% | 0.05% |
| 8 | TECHNIPFMC PLC | 0.05% | 0.32% | 0.05% |
| 9 | J. B. HUNT TRANSPORT SERVICES, INC. | 0.05% | 0.27% | 0.05% |
| 10 | HUBBELL INCORPORATED | 0.05% | 0.17% | 0.05% |
| 11 | TAPESTRY, INC. | 0.05% | 0.36% | 0.05% |
| 12 | BURLINGTON STORES, INC. | 0.05% | 0.12% | 0.05% |
Only in DFAU
1,156 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 VB
275 total- RB Global Inc 0.26%
- Essex Property Trust Inc 0.23%
- Invitation Homes Inc 0.22%
- Weyerhaeuser Co 0.21%
- Kimco Realty Corp 0.21%
- Annaly Capital Management Inc 0.20%
- Host Hotels & Resorts Inc 0.20%
- Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc 0.20%
- WP Carey Inc 0.19%
- Sun Communities Inc 0.18%
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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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