ETF comparison
DFAU vs VUG
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
137 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and VUG would leave roughly 49.0% 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
VUG 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
137 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.74% | 12.63% | 6.74% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 11.67% | 6.45% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.09% | 7.61% | 5.09% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.59% | 4.47% | 3.59% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.74% | 5.76% | 2.74% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.34% | 4.28% | 2.34% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.28% | 4.53% | 2.28% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.79% | 3.41% | 1.79% |
| 9 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.24% | 2.81% | 1.24% |
| 10 | TESLA, INC. | 1.08% | 3.27% | 1.08% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 0.86% | 2.62% | 0.86% |
| 12 | VISA INC. | 0.75% | 1.54% | 0.75% |
Only in DFAU
2,053 total- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.39%
- 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%
- CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 0.53%
- MERCK & CO., INC. 0.50%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION 0.50%
Only in VUG
9 total- Welltower Inc 0.46%
- Equinix Inc 0.30%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.14%
- Realty Income Corp 0.10%
- SBA Communications Corp 0.07%
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.06%
- Atlassian Corp 0.05%
- Cerebras Systems Inc 0.04%
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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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