ETF comparison
DFAX vs VXUS
Both International Total.
Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF · Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
6,487 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAX and VXUS would leave roughly 56.3% 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
VXUS is 23 bps cheaper than DFAX. On a $100,000 position that's about $230/yr more in fees for DFAX.
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 DFAX vs VXUS.
Top shared holdings
6,487 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAX | In VXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 1.87% | 4.10% | 1.87% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.34% | 1.83% | 1.34% |
| 3 | SK hynix Inc. | 0.81% | 1.43% | 0.81% |
| 4 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 0.49% | 0.87% | 0.49% |
| 5 | Nestle S.A. | 0.40% | 0.59% | 0.40% |
| 6 | Roche Holding AG | 0.39% | 0.70% | 0.39% |
| 7 | TOTALENERGIES SE | 0.54% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 8 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.38% | 0.46% | 0.38% |
| 9 | Allianz SE | 0.30% | 0.43% | 0.30% |
| 10 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.27% | 0.55% | 0.27% |
| 11 | ADVANTEST CORPORATION | 0.26% | 0.33% | 0.26% |
| 12 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 0.26% | 0.67% | 0.26% |
Only in DFAX
3,897 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 0.99%
- Novartis AG 0.67%
- ASML Holding N.V. 0.62%
- SHELL PLC 0.48%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.29%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.28%
- BP P.L.C. 0.25%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. 0.22%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.16%
- ICICI BANK LIMITED 0.15%
Only in VXUS
2,249 total- SoftBank Group Corp 0.27%
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 0.23%
- Air Liquide SA 0.18%
- Investor AB 0.17%
- L'Oreal SA 0.15%
- SK Square Co Ltd 0.14%
- Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF 0.12%
- ORIX Corp 0.10%
- Goodman Group 0.09%
- 3i Group PLC 0.09%
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- DFAX vs ACWX · iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF 47.6%
- DFAX vs VEA · Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets Index Fund ETF Shares 46.6%
- DFAX vs IEFA · iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 42.2%
- DFAX vs CWI · State Street SPDR MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF 38.9%
More comparisons with VXUS
- VXUS vs DFAI · Dimensional International Core Equity Market ETF 54.9%
- VXUS vs PXF · Invesco RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. ETF 52.8%
- VXUS vs FNDF · Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 49.5%
- VXUS vs EFA · iShares MSCI EAFE ETF 48.6%
- VXUS vs DBEF · Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF 48.5%
- VXUS vs BBIN · JPMorgan BetaBuilders International Equity ETF 47.4%
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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