ETF comparison
DFAU vs VIG
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
327 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and VIG would leave roughly 39.4% 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
VIG is 8 bps cheaper than DFAU. On a $100,000 position that's about $80/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
327 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 4.45% | 4.45% |
| 2 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.09% | 4.34% | 4.34% |
| 3 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.34% | 4.63% | 2.34% |
| 4 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.28% | 4.07% | 1.28% |
| 5 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.24% | 3.93% | 1.24% |
| 6 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION | 0.88% | 2.78% | 0.88% |
| 7 | VISA INC. | 0.75% | 2.45% | 0.75% |
| 8 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.73% | 2.67% | 0.73% |
| 9 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 0.64% | 2.00% | 0.64% |
| 10 | WALMART INC. | 0.58% | 2.11% | 0.58% |
| 11 | ABBVIE INC. | 0.54% | 1.92% | 0.54% |
| 12 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.53% | 1.98% | 0.53% |
Only in DFAU
1,863 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 6.74%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.59%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.74%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.28%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.79%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.39%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.11%
- TESLA, INC. 1.08%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 0.86%
- APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. 0.47%
Only in VIG
6 total- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.13%
- RB Global Inc 0.09%
- FactSet Research Systems Inc 0.04%
- TXNM Energy Inc 0.02%
- MarketAxess Holdings Inc 0.02%
- Brown-Forman Corp 0.01%
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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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