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DFSV vs VTV

US Small Cap vs US Value.

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

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFSV and VTV would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

DFSV unmatched 99.8% Shared 0.0% VTV unmatched 99.5%

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
993 positions
Shared
1 positions
In VTV only
307 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%
VTV

Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF

Vanguard · US Value

93 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$251.72B
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
1.85%
Top-10 conc.
23.6%

Sub-score comparison

69
Cost
97
88
Tax efficiency
87
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
81
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Tracking quality
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DFSV sub-score VTV

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

Cost difference

VTV 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 VTV.

Top shared holdings

1 shared in total
# Holding In DFSV In VTV Overlap
1 MCCORMICK & COMPANY, INCORPORATED 0.16% 0.02% 0.02%

Only in DFSV

993 total
  • INVESCO LTD 0.76%
  • 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%
  • APA CORPORATION 0.66%
  • ELANCO ANIMAL HEALTH INCORPORATED 0.64%
  • WESCO INTERNATIONAL, INC. 0.62%
  • ZIONS BANCORPORATION, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 0.61%

Only in VTV

307 total
  • Micron Technology Inc 4.87%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.06%
  • Berkshire Hathaway Inc 2.95%
  • Johnson & Johnson 2.29%
  • Exxon Mobil Corp 2.12%
  • Walmart Inc 1.86%
  • Caterpillar Inc 1.83%
  • AbbVie Inc 1.66%
  • Cisco Systems Inc 1.56%
  • UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.41%

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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/.

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.