ETF comparison
DFUS vs VUG
US Total Market vs US Large Cap Growth.
Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
138 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFUS and VUG would leave roughly 52.9% 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
VUG 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 VUG.
Top shared holdings
138 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFUS | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.75% | 12.63% | 6.75% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 11.67% | 6.45% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.99% | 7.61% | 4.99% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.83% | 4.47% | 3.83% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.00% | 5.76% | 3.00% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.63% | 4.28% | 2.63% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.48% | 4.53% | 2.48% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.77% | 3.41% | 1.77% |
| 9 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.33% | 2.81% | 1.33% |
| 10 | TESLA, INC. | 1.27% | 3.27% | 1.27% |
| 11 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. | 1.12% | 2.62% | 1.12% |
| 12 | VISA INC. | 0.88% | 1.54% | 0.88% |
Only in DFUS
2,096 total- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.38%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.37%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.35%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.93%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.90%
- WALMART INC. 0.71%
- CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 0.67%
- ABBVIE INC. 0.64%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION 0.61%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED 0.55%
Only in VUG
8 total- Welltower Inc 0.46%
- Equinix Inc 0.30%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.29%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.14%
- Realty Income Corp 0.10%
- SBA Communications Corp 0.07%
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc 0.06%
- Cerebras Systems Inc 0.04%
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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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