ETF comparison
DFUS vs VTI
Both US Total Market.
Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF · Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,145 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFUS and VTI would leave roughly 92.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VTI 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 VTI.
Top shared holdings
2,145 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFUS | In VTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.96% | 6.42% | 6.42% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 5.85% | 5.94% | 5.85% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.51% | 4.38% | 4.38% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.83% | 3.21% | 3.21% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.30% | 2.67% | 2.67% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.89% | 2.34% | 2.34% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.74% | 2.11% | 2.11% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 2.01% | 2.00% | 2.00% |
| 9 | TESLA, INC. | 1.78% | 1.67% | 1.67% |
| 10 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.30% | 1.37% | 1.30% |
| 11 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.26% | 1.19% | 1.19% |
| 12 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.12% | 1.25% | 1.12% |
Only in DFUS
86 total- DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP 1.41%
- NXP Semiconductors N.V. 0.11%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.10%
- COUPANG, INC. 0.05%
- AMCOR PLC 0.03%
- SOUTHERN COPPER CORPORATION 0.02%
- SHARKNINJA, INC. 0.02%
- AUTOLIV, INC. 0.01%
- GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC. 0.01%
- Amdocs Limited 0.01%
Only in VTI
1,335 total- Welltower Inc 0.22%
- Prologis Inc 0.20%
- Equinix Inc 0.15%
- American Tower Corp 0.13%
- Digital Realty Trust Inc 0.10%
- Simon Property Group Inc 0.09%
- Realty Income Corp 0.09%
- Public Storage 0.07%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.07%
- Strategy Inc 0.06%
Open DFUS or VTI at a brokerage
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.