ETF comparison
DFSV vs VTI
US Small Cap vs US Total Market.
DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares · Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
936 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFSV and VTI would leave roughly 3.0% 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
VTI is 28 bps cheaper than DFSV. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
936 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFSV | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WESCO INTERNATIONAL, INC. | 0.62% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 2 | Regal Rexnord Corporation | 0.08% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 3 | TOLL BROTHERS, INC. | 0.07% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 4 | OVINTIV INC. | 0.70% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 5 | PERMIAN RESOURCES CORPORATION | 0.32% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 6 | STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC. | 0.53% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. | 0.40% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 8 | JONES LANG LASALLE INCORPORATED | 0.05% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Everest Group Ltd | 0.03% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | THE COOPER COMPANIES, INC. | 0.13% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | AMKOR TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 0.42% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | ALCOA CORPORATION | 0.11% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in DFSV
58 total- GATES INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION PLC 0.46%
- ICON PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.40%
- SCORPIO TANKERS INC. 0.27%
- Copa Holdings, S.A. 0.21%
- Amdocs Limited 0.21%
- DHT HOLDINGS, INC. 0.18%
- Teekay Tankers Ltd. 0.18%
- Pelagos Insurance Capital Limited 0.15%
- Dorian LPG Ltd. 0.14%
- Liberty Global Ltd. 0.13%
Only in VTI
2,568 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.36%
- Apple Inc 5.87%
- Microsoft Corp 3.83%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.19%
- Alphabet Inc 2.90%
- Broadcom Inc 2.47%
- Alphabet Inc 2.28%
- Micron Technology Inc 1.80%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.71%
- Tesla Inc 1.64%
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- DFSV vs VIG · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares 1.4%
- DFSV vs VOO · Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 0.4%
- DFSV vs SPYM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF 0.3%
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- VTI vs IWO · iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF 2.8%
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- VTI vs SPSM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF 2.5%
- VTI vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 2.5%
- VTI vs VIOO · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Index Fund ETF Shares 2.5%
- VTI vs VNQ · Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF Shares 2.2%
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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