ETF comparison
DFSV vs VBK
Both US Small Cap.
DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
68 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFSV and VBK would leave roughly 4.7% 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
VBK is 26 bps cheaper than DFSV. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/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 VBK.
Top shared holdings
68 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFSV | In VBK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BIOMARIN PHARMACEUTICAL INC. | 0.32% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 2 | DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. | 0.57% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 3 | PERMIAN RESOURCES CORPORATION | 0.32% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 4 | Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. | 0.40% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 5 | KNIGHT-SWIFT TRANSPORTATION HOLDINGS INC. | 0.70% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 6 | LIFE TIME GROUP HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.28% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 7 | GENTEX CORPORATION | 0.18% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 8 | ANTERO RESOURCES CORPORATION | 0.48% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 9 | Transocean Ltd. | 0.35% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 10 | NOBLE CORPORATION PLC | 0.39% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 11 | LIBERTY ENERGY INC. | 0.18% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 12 | Valaris Limited | 0.26% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
Only in DFSV
926 total- INVESCO LTD 0.76%
- HF SINCLAIR CORPORATION 0.75%
- BORGWARNER INC. 0.75%
- OVINTIV INC. 0.70%
- ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.69%
- APA CORPORATION 0.66%
- ELANCO ANIMAL HEALTH INCORPORATED 0.64%
- WESCO INTERNATIONAL, INC. 0.62%
- ZIONS BANCORPORATION, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 0.61%
- SOUTHSTATE BANK CORPORATION 0.61%
Only in VBK
475 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 1.27%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 1.06%
- Astera Labs Inc 1.05%
- Natera Inc 1.04%
- Twilio Inc 0.88%
- Casey's General Stores Inc 0.83%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 0.82%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 0.79%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 0.78%
- nVent Electric PLC 0.77%
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- DFSV vs VTI · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF 3.0%
- DFSV vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 2.9%
- DFSV vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 2.3%
More comparisons with VBK
- VBK vs IWD · iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF 4.6%
- VBK vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 4.1%
- VBK vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 1.9%
- VBK vs VO · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF 1.6%
- VBK vs VYM · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares 1.5%
- VBK vs DGRO · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF 1.2%
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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