ETF comparison
DFIC vs IXUS
International Developed vs International Total.
Dimensional International Core Equity 2 ETF · iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF
Holdings overlap
1,958 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFIC and IXUS would leave roughly 45.3% 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
IXUS is 15 bps cheaper than DFIC. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/yr more in fees for DFIC.
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 DFIC vs IXUS.
Top shared holdings
1,958 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFIC | In IXUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roche Holding AG | 0.63% | 0.72% | 0.63% |
| 2 | Nestle S.A. | 0.62% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 3 | Allianz SE | 0.48% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 4 | BHP GROUP LIMITED | 0.42% | 0.50% | 0.42% |
| 5 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 0.46% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 6 | TOTALENERGIES SE | 0.72% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 7 | ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 0.45% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 8 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.36% | 0.56% | 0.36% |
| 9 | ASTRAZENECA PLC | 0.33% | 0.60% | 0.33% |
| 10 | Hitachi, Ltd. | 0.32% | 0.34% | 0.32% |
| 11 | Sony Group Corporation | 0.31% | 0.32% | 0.31% |
| 12 | UNICREDIT, SOCIETA PER AZIONI | 0.40% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
Only in DFIC
2,079 total- ASML Holding N.V. 1.05%
- SHELL PLC 0.98%
- Novartis AG 0.76%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.49%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. 0.48%
- BP P.L.C. 0.40%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 0.26%
- LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC 0.18%
- UNILEVER PLC 0.17%
- NATWEST GROUP PLC 0.15%
Only in IXUS
2,531 total- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 4.29%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1.92%
- SK hynix Inc. 1.48%
- Tencent Holdings Limited 0.88%
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited 0.60%
- SHELL PLC 0.60%
- MediaTek Inc. 0.36%
- UNILEVER PLC 0.32%
- SoftBank Group Corp. 0.27%
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 0.24%
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- IXUS vs AVDE · Avantis International Equity ETF 43.0%
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- IXUS vs VGK · Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF 36.6%
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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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