ETF comparison
DFAU vs VO
US Total Market vs US Mid Cap.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
263 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and VO would leave roughly 18.5% 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
VO 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 VO.
Top shared holdings
263 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION | 0.34% | 1.06% | 0.34% |
| 2 | SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 0.27% | 1.05% | 0.27% |
| 3 | The Travelers Companies, Inc. | 0.19% | 0.34% | 0.19% |
| 4 | GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY | 0.17% | 0.67% | 0.17% |
| 5 | NEWMONT CORPORATION | 0.17% | 0.48% | 0.17% |
| 6 | MARATHON PETROLEUM CORPORATION | 0.17% | 0.72% | 0.17% |
| 7 | PHILLIPS 66 | 0.16% | 0.66% | 0.16% |
| 8 | VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION | 0.16% | 0.75% | 0.16% |
| 9 | ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD. | 0.16% | 0.74% | 0.16% |
| 10 | ROSS STORES, INC. | 0.15% | 0.66% | 0.15% |
| 11 | TARGET CORPORATION | 0.15% | 0.57% | 0.15% |
| 12 | THE ALLSTATE CORPORATION | 0.15% | 0.59% | 0.15% |
Only in DFAU
1,927 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 VO
19 total- Simon Property Group Inc 0.67%
- Digital Realty Trust Inc 0.61%
- Realty Income Corp 0.56%
- Electronic Arts Inc 0.50%
- Public Storage 0.49%
- Ventas Inc 0.42%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.41%
- Iron Mountain Inc 0.35%
- Crown Castle Inc 0.32%
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.30%
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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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