ETF comparison
DFUS vs VO
US Total Market vs US Mid Cap.
Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
264 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFUS and VO would leave roughly 15.4% 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
VO 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 VO.
Top shared holdings
264 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFUS | In VO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION | 0.29% | 1.06% | 0.29% |
| 2 | SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 0.28% | 1.05% | 0.28% |
| 3 | HOWMET AEROSPACE INC. | 0.16% | 1.04% | 0.16% |
| 4 | QUANTA SERVICES, INC. | 0.15% | 1.04% | 0.15% |
| 5 | FORTINET, INC. | 0.15% | 0.46% | 0.15% |
| 6 | NEWMONT CORPORATION | 0.14% | 0.48% | 0.14% |
| 7 | MARATHON PETROLEUM CORPORATION | 0.14% | 0.72% | 0.14% |
| 8 | VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION | 0.14% | 0.75% | 0.14% |
| 9 | SNOWFLAKE INC. | 0.13% | 0.41% | 0.13% |
| 10 | JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 0.13% | 0.43% | 0.13% |
| 11 | VERTIV HOLDINGS CO | 0.13% | 1.22% | 0.13% |
| 12 | CUMMINS INC. | 0.13% | 0.95% | 0.13% |
Only in DFUS
1,970 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 VO
18 total- Simon Property Group Inc 0.67%
- Digital Realty Trust Inc 0.61%
- Realty Income Corp 0.56%
- Electronic Arts Inc 0.50%
- Public Storage 0.49%
- Ventas Inc 0.42%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.41%
- Iron Mountain Inc 0.35%
- Crown Castle Inc 0.32%
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.30%
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- DFUS vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 4.5%
- 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%
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- VO vs OMFL · Invesco Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF 14.9%
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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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