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ETF comparison

DFSV vs SPY

US Small Cap vs US Large Cap.

DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.3 %

20 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFSV and SPY would leave roughly 0.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

DFSV unmatched 99.5% Shared 0.3% SPY unmatched 99.6%

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.

In DFSV only
974 positions
Shared
20 positions
In SPY only
485 positions

Side by side

DFSV

DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares

Dimensional · US Small Cap

85 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.31%
Net assets
$26.49B
TTM yield
1.40%
Top-10 conc.
6.9%
SPY

State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

State Street · US Large Cap

88 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.094%
Net assets
$809.22B
TTM yield
1.00%
Top-10 conc.
37.9%

Sub-score comparison

69
Cost
91
88
Tax efficiency
89
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
60
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Tracking quality
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DFSV sub-score SPY

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

SPY is 22 bps cheaper than DFSV. On a $100,000 position that's about $216/yr more in fees for DFSV.

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 DFSV vs SPY.

Top shared holdings

20 shared in total
# Holding In DFSV In SPY Overlap
1 REVVITY, INC. 0.43% 0.03% 0.03%
2 APA CORPORATION 0.66% 0.02% 0.02%
3 CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. 0.12% 0.02% 0.02%
4 STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC. 0.53% 0.02% 0.02%
5 INVESCO LTD 0.76% 0.02% 0.02%
6 TRIMBLE INC. 0.03% 0.02% 0.02%
7 Everest Group Ltd 0.03% 0.02% 0.02%
8 SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC. 0.48% 0.02% 0.02%
9 THE J. M. SMUCKER COMPANY 0.40% 0.02% 0.02%
10 BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. 0.37% 0.02% 0.02%
11 MCCORMICK & COMPANY, INCORPORATED 0.16% 0.02% 0.02%
12 THE COOPER COMPANIES, INC. 0.13% 0.02% 0.02%

Only in DFSV

974 total
  • HF SINCLAIR CORPORATION 0.75%
  • BORGWARNER INC. 0.75%
  • KNIGHT-SWIFT TRANSPORTATION HOLDINGS INC. 0.70%
  • OVINTIV INC. 0.70%
  • ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.69%
  • ELANCO ANIMAL HEALTH INCORPORATED 0.64%
  • WESCO INTERNATIONAL, INC. 0.62%
  • ZIONS BANCORPORATION, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 0.61%
  • SOUTHSTATE BANK CORPORATION 0.61%
  • LITHIA MOTORS, INC. 0.59%

Only in SPY

485 total
  • NVIDIA CORP 8.50%
  • APPLE INC 7.32%
  • MICROSOFT CORP 5.77%
  • AMAZON.COM INC 3.71%
  • ALPHABET INC CL A 3.03%
  • BROADCOM INC 2.54%
  • ALPHABET INC CL C 2.43%
  • META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.41%
  • MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC 1.82%
  • TESLA INC 1.57%

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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.