ETF comparison
DFUS vs VIG
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF · Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
330 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFUS and VIG would leave roughly 40.2% 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
VIG is 5 bps cheaper than DFUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/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 VIG.
Top shared holdings
330 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFUS | In VIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 4.45% | 4.45% |
| 2 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.99% | 4.34% | 4.34% |
| 3 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.63% | 4.63% | 2.63% |
| 4 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.37% | 4.07% | 1.37% |
| 5 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.33% | 3.93% | 1.33% |
| 6 | EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION | 0.93% | 2.78% | 0.93% |
| 7 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 0.90% | 2.67% | 0.90% |
| 8 | VISA INC. | 0.88% | 2.45% | 0.88% |
| 9 | WALMART INC. | 0.71% | 2.11% | 0.71% |
| 10 | MASTERCARD INCORPORATED | 0.68% | 2.00% | 0.68% |
| 11 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. | 0.67% | 1.98% | 0.67% |
| 12 | ABBVIE INC. | 0.64% | 1.92% | 0.64% |
Only in DFUS
1,904 total- NVIDIA CORPORATION 6.75%
- AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.83%
- ALPHABET INC. 3.00%
- ALPHABET INC. 2.48%
- META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.77%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.38%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.35%
- TESLA, INC. 1.27%
- ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 1.12%
- INTEL CORPORATION 0.62%
Only in VIG
3 total- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.13%
- RB Global Inc 0.09%
- TXNM Energy Inc 0.02%
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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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