ETF comparison
DFUS vs VB
US Total Market vs US Small Cap.
Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
1,051 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFUS and VB would leave roughly 10.0% 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
VB is 6 bps cheaper than DFUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/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 VB.
Top shared holdings
1,051 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFUS | In VB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astera Labs Inc | 0.06% | 0.45% | 0.06% |
| 2 | FLEX LTD. | 0.06% | 0.36% | 0.06% |
| 3 | NATERA, INC. | 0.05% | 0.45% | 0.05% |
| 4 | EMCOR GROUP, INC. | 0.05% | 0.45% | 0.05% |
| 5 | STEEL DYNAMICS, INC. | 0.05% | 0.19% | 0.05% |
| 6 | Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd | 0.05% | 0.55% | 0.05% |
| 7 | JABIL INC. | 0.05% | 0.49% | 0.05% |
| 8 | CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, INC. | 0.05% | 0.36% | 0.05% |
| 9 | EQT CORPORATION | 0.05% | 0.20% | 0.05% |
| 10 | REVOLUTION MEDICINES, INC. | 0.05% | 0.46% | 0.05% |
| 11 | TAPESTRY, INC. | 0.04% | 0.36% | 0.04% |
| 12 | ILLUMINA, INC. | 0.04% | 0.31% | 0.04% |
Only in DFUS
1,183 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 VB
258 total- RB Global Inc 0.26%
- Essex Property Trust Inc 0.23%
- Invitation Homes Inc 0.22%
- Weyerhaeuser Co 0.21%
- Kimco Realty Corp 0.21%
- Annaly Capital Management Inc 0.20%
- Host Hotels & Resorts Inc 0.20%
- Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc 0.20%
- WP Carey Inc 0.19%
- Sun Communities Inc 0.18%
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- DFUS vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 3.2%
- DFUS vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 2.2%
- DFUS vs DFAU · Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF 91.7%
- DFUS vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 91.1%
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/methodology/.
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