ETF comparison
DFIV vs VT
International Total vs Global Stock (incl. US).
Dimensional International Value ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
556 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFIV and VT would leave roughly 9.5% 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
VT is 21 bps cheaper than DFIV. On a $100,000 position that's about $210/yr more in fees for DFIV.
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 DFIV vs VT.
Top shared holdings
556 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFIV | In VT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 0.74% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 2 | SHELL PLC | 0.79% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 3 | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 0.53% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 4 | Banco Santander, S.A. | 1.93% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 5 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 1.78% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 6 | THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK | 0.36% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 7 | TOTALENERGIES SE | 2.05% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 8 | UBS Group AG | 0.48% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 9 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 1.01% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 10 | UNICREDIT, SOCIETA PER AZIONI | 0.60% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 11 | BANK OF MONTREAL | 0.50% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 12 | BNP PARIBAS SA | 0.79% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
Only in DFIV
48 total- SHELL PLC 3.17%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 1.27%
- BP P.L.C. 1.01%
- Novartis AG 0.65%
- UBS Group AG 0.29%
- BARCLAYS PLC 0.27%
- Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft 0.21%
- ArcelorMittal SA 0.20%
- NATWEST GROUP PLC 0.19%
- STMicroelectronics N.V. 0.15%
Only in VT
9,494 total- NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
- Apple Inc 3.87%
- Microsoft Corp 2.99%
- Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
- Alphabet Inc 1.83%
- Broadcom Inc 1.57%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.56%
- Alphabet Inc 1.44%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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