ETF comparison
DFAU vs VYM
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
572 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and VYM would leave roughly 36.6% 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
VYM 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 VYM.
Top shared holdings
572 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.34% | 7.35% | 2.34% |
| 2 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.28% | 3.82% | 1.28% |
| 3 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION | 0.88% | 2.63% | 0.88% |
| 4 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.73% | 2.51% | 0.73% |
| 5 | ABBVIE INC. | 0.54% | 1.80% | 0.54% |
| 6 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.53% | 1.86% | 0.53% |
| 7 | MERCK & CO., INC. | 0.50% | 1.31% | 0.50% |
| 8 | BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION | 0.50% | 1.66% | 0.50% |
| 9 | THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY | 0.49% | 1.37% | 0.49% |
| 10 | THE HOME DEPOT, INC. | 0.46% | 1.34% | 0.46% |
| 11 | CHEVRON CORPORATION | 0.46% | 1.48% | 0.46% |
| 12 | THE COCA-COLA COMPANY | 0.46% | 1.38% | 0.46% |
Only in DFAU
1,618 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 6.74%
- APPLE INC. 6.45%
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 5.09%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.59%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.74%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.28%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.79%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.39%
- ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 1.24%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.11%
Only in VYM
32 total- Credicorp Ltd 0.11%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.10%
- FactSet Research Systems Inc 0.04%
- Millicom International Cellular SA 0.04%
- Blue Owl Capital Inc 0.03%
- XP Inc 0.03%
- TXNM Energy Inc 0.02%
- MarketAxess Holdings Inc 0.02%
- Ryan Specialty Holdings Inc 0.02%
- Golar LNG Ltd 0.02%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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