ETF comparison
DFUS vs IWM
US Total Market vs US Small Cap.
Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF · iShares Russell 2000 ETF
Holdings overlap
1,250 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFUS and IWM would leave roughly 3.2% 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
DFUS is 10 bps cheaper than IWM. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for IWM.
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 DFUS vs IWM.
Top shared holdings
1,250 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFUS | In IWM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MOOG INC. | 0.02% | 0.38% | 0.02% |
| 2 | UMB FINANCIAL CORPORATION | 0.02% | 0.33% | 0.02% |
| 3 | HUT 8 CORP. | 0.01% | 0.37% | 0.01% |
| 4 | BRINKER INTERNATIONAL, INC. | 0.01% | 0.23% | 0.01% |
| 5 | OLD NATIONAL BANCORP | 0.01% | 0.28% | 0.01% |
| 6 | BRIGHTSPRING HEALTH SERVICES, INC. | 0.01% | 0.35% | 0.01% |
| 7 | VISTANCE NETWORKS, INC. | 0.01% | 0.09% | 0.01% |
| 8 | VIASAT, INC. | 0.01% | 0.35% | 0.01% |
| 9 | Crinetics Pharmaceuticals Inc | 0.01% | 0.12% | 0.01% |
| 10 | FIRSTCASH HOLDINGS, INC. | 0.01% | 0.28% | 0.01% |
| 11 | HEALTHEQUITY, INC. | 0.01% | 0.24% | 0.01% |
| 12 | InterDigital, Inc. | 0.01% | 0.23% | 0.01% |
Only in DFUS
984 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 6.75%
- APPLE INC. 6.45%
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION 4.99%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.83%
- ALPHABET INC. 3.00%
- BROADCOM INC. 2.63%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.48%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.77%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.38%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.37%
Only in IWM
764 total- Cytokinetics, Inc. 0.35%
- MaxLinear, Inc. 0.34%
- CareTrust REIT, Inc. 0.28%
- Compass, Inc. 0.27%
- D-Wave Quantum, Inc. 0.27%
- Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. 0.25%
- Core Scientific, Inc. 0.25%
- Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc. 0.23%
- Hims & Hers Health, Inc. 0.23%
- Macerich Co. (The) 0.22%
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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/.
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