ETF comparison
DGS vs VB
Dividend vs US Small Cap.
WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend Fund · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DGS and VB would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VB is 55 bps cheaper than DGS. On a $100,000 position that's about $550/yr more in fees for DGS.
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 DGS vs VB.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in DGS
1,010 total- INNOLUX CORP 3.24%
- GROWTHPOINT PROPERTIES LTD 1.22%
- POWERTECH TECHNOLOGY INC 1.16%
- BANCO DEL BAJIO SA 0.97%
- OLD MUTUAL LTD 0.92%
- WPG HOLDINGS LTD 0.76%
- TRANSMISSORA ALIANCA DE ENERGIA ELETRICA SA 0.73%
- GRUPO AEROPORTUARIO DEL CENTRO SAB DE CV 0.72%
- REDEFINE PROPERTIES LTD 0.70%
- ALIOR BANK SA 0.69%
Only in VB
1,309 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.45%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Flex Ltd 0.36%
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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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