ETF comparison
DFUS vs SCHD
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF
Holdings overlap
96 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFUS and SCHD would leave roughly 7.6% 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
SCHD is 3 bps cheaper than DFUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for DFUS.
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 SCHD.
Top shared holdings
96 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFUS | In SCHD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED | 0.55% | 5.09% | 0.55% |
| 2 | CHEVRON CORPORATION | 0.53% | 3.83% | 0.53% |
| 3 | THE COCA-COLA COMPANY | 0.50% | 3.96% | 0.50% |
| 4 | THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY | 0.49% | 3.55% | 0.49% |
| 5 | THE HOME DEPOT, INC. | 0.48% | 3.36% | 0.48% |
| 6 | MERCK & CO., INC. | 0.47% | 3.86% | 0.47% |
| 7 | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED | 0.36% | 5.90% | 0.36% |
| 8 | AMGEN INC. | 0.30% | 3.47% | 0.30% |
| 9 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. | 0.29% | 3.65% | 0.29% |
| 10 | Pepsico, Inc. | 0.28% | 3.44% | 0.28% |
| 11 | ABBOTT LABORATORIES | 0.23% | 2.96% | 0.23% |
| 12 | QUALCOMM INCORPORATED | 0.23% | 6.74% | 0.23% |
Only in DFUS
2,138 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 SCHD
3 total- Flowers Foods Inc 0.04%
- Insperity Inc 0.03%
- CNA Financial Corp 0.02%
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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