ETF comparison
DFAU vs VTV
US Total Market vs US Value.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF
Holdings overlap
289 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and VTV would leave roughly 38.7% 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
VTV 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 VTV.
Top shared holdings
289 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In VTV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.39% | 4.87% | 1.39% |
| 2 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.28% | 3.06% | 1.28% |
| 3 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.11% | 2.95% | 1.11% |
| 4 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.73% | 2.29% | 0.73% |
| 5 | WALMART INC. | 0.58% | 1.86% | 0.58% |
| 6 | ABBVIE INC. | 0.54% | 1.66% | 0.54% |
| 7 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.53% | 1.56% | 0.53% |
| 8 | MERCK & CO., INC. | 0.50% | 1.19% | 0.50% |
| 9 | BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION | 0.50% | 1.36% | 0.50% |
| 10 | THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY | 0.49% | 1.28% | 0.49% |
| 11 | THE HOME DEPOT, INC. | 0.46% | 1.32% | 0.46% |
| 12 | CHEVRON CORPORATION | 0.46% | 1.17% | 0.46% |
Only in DFAU
1,901 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%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 1.24%
- TESLA, INC. 1.08%
Only in VTV
19 total- Exxon Mobil Corp 2.12%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 0.52%
- Prologis Inc 0.47%
- American Tower Corp 0.29%
- Simon Property Group Inc 0.26%
- Digital Realty Trust Inc 0.24%
- Electronic Arts Inc 0.19%
- Public Storage 0.19%
- Ventas Inc 0.16%
- Iron Mountain Inc 0.13%
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- DFAU vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 18.5%
- DFAU vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 13.0%
- DFAU vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 7.9%
- DFAU vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 5.9%
- DFAU vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 4.4%
More comparisons with VTV
- VTV vs DFUS · Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF 38.6%
- VTV vs JAVA · JPMorgan Active Value ETF 38.5%
- VTV vs ESGU · iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF 38.1%
- VTV vs VTHR · Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares 37.6%
- VTV vs MGC · Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF 37.6%
- VTV vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 37.6%
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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