ETF comparison
DFUV vs VUG
US Value vs US Large Cap Growth.
Dimensional US Marketwide Value ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
31 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFUV and VUG would leave roughly 7.0% 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
VUG is 18 bps cheaper than DFUV. On a $100,000 position that's about $180/yr more in fees for DFUV.
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 DFUV vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
31 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFUV | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.47% | 4.47% | 3.47% |
| 2 | INTEL CORPORATION | 1.19% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 3 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 0.50% | 3.41% | 0.50% |
| 4 | VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED | 0.52% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 5 | UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 0.58% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 6 | DOORDASH, INC. | 0.19% | 0.21% | 0.19% |
| 7 | SYNOPSYS, INC. | 0.18% | 0.25% | 0.18% |
| 8 | STRYKER CORPORATION | 0.15% | 0.17% | 0.15% |
| 9 | BLOCK, INC. | 0.14% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 10 | Coherent Corp. | 0.13% | 0.23% | 0.13% |
| 11 | VULCAN MATERIALS COMPANY | 0.17% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 12 | INTUIT INC. | 0.14% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
Only in DFUV
1,302 total- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 4.50%
- EXXONMOBIL HOLDINGS CORPORATION 3.22%
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2.86%
- MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 2.86%
- BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 2.72%
- CHEVRON CORPORATION 2.00%
- CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 1.50%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED 1.42%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION 1.33%
- LINDE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 1.20%
Only in VUG
115 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 2.62%
- Applied Materials Inc 1.60%
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- DFUV vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 4.7%
- DFUV vs DFLV · Dimensional US Large Cap Value ETF 75.2%
- DFUV vs VONV · Vanguard Russell 1000 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 56.7%
- DFUV vs PRF · Invesco RAFI US 1000 ETF 55.6%
More comparisons with VUG
- VUG vs MGV · Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap Value ETF 5.9%
- VUG vs SPLV · Invesco S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF 5.8%
- VUG vs IWP · iShares Russell Mid-Cap Growth ETF 5.6%
- VUG vs VTV · Vanguard Morningstar Value ETF 3.7%
- VUG vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 3.1%
- VUG vs IWS · iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF 3.0%
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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