ETF comparison
DFCF vs NEAR
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF
Holdings overlap
14 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFCF and NEAR would leave roughly 0.2% 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
DFCF is 8 bps cheaper than NEAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $80/yr more in fees for NEAR.
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 DFCF vs NEAR.
Top shared holdings
14 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFCF | In NEAR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BROADCOM INC. | 0.07% | 0.09% | 0.07% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.05% | 0.35% | 0.05% |
| 3 | LYB INTERNATIONAL FINANCE III, LLC | 0.04% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 4 | Philip Morris International Inc. | 0.01% | 0.09% | 0.01% |
| 5 | B.A.T CAPITAL CORPORATION | 0.01% | 0.08% | 0.01% |
| 6 | NEXTERA ENERGY CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.01% | 0.04% | 0.01% |
| 7 | Altria Group, Inc. | 0.01% | 0.10% | 0.01% |
| 8 | AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION | 0.00% | 0.01% | 0.00% |
| 9 | BROADCOM INC. | 0.00% | 0.10% | 0.00% |
| 10 | B.A.T. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE P.L.C. | 0.00% | 0.01% | 0.00% |
| 11 | EQUINIX, INC. | 0.00% | 0.07% | 0.00% |
| 12 | SEMPRA | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in DFCF
1,756 total- Federal National Mortgage Association 6.19%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 5.34%
- United States of America 4.70%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 4.10%
- United States of America 3.07%
- Government National Mortgage Association 2 3.00%
- United States of America 2.94%
- United States of America 2.93%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 2.85%
- United States of America 2.25%
Only in NEAR
1,566 total- United States Treasury 14.14%
- United States Treasury 4.25%
- United States Treasury 3.73%
- United States Treasury 3.20%
- United States Treasury 1.60%
- United States Treasury 1.47%
- United States Treasury 1.04%
- United States Treasury 0.78%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.48%
- APPLOVIN CORP 0.47%
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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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