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DISV vs VT

International Developed vs Global Stock (incl. US).

Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF · Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
1.5 %

1,028 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DISV and VT would leave roughly 1.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

DISV unmatched 95.0% Shared 1.5% VT unmatched 97.6%

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.

In DISV only
573 positions
Shared
1,028 positions
In VT only
9,022 positions

Side by side

DISV

Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF

Dimensional · International Developed

76 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.42%
Net assets
$5.18B
TTM yield
2.69%
Top-10 conc.
6.5%
VT

Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Global Stock (incl. US)

92 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.060%
Net assets
$101.18B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
1.55%
Top-10 conc.
21.5%

Sub-score comparison

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Cost
94
78
Tax efficiency
85
88
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
84
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Tracking quality
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DISV sub-score VT

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VT is 36 bps cheaper than DISV. On a $100,000 position that's about $360/yr more in fees for DISV.

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 DISV vs VT.

Top shared holdings

1,028 shared in total
# Holding In DISV In VT Overlap
1 AVIVA PLC 0.14% 0.03% 0.03%
2 Helvetia Baloise Holding AG 0.18% 0.02% 0.02%
3 INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY 0.17% 0.02% 0.02%
4 BANK OF IRELAND GROUP PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.04% 0.02% 0.02%
5 Julius Baer Gruppe AG 0.08% 0.02% 0.02%
6 OVINTIV INC. 0.16% 0.02% 0.02%
7 AGEAS SA 0.17% 0.01% 0.01%
8 UPM-Kymmene Oyj 0.11% 0.01% 0.01%
9 iA Financial Corporation Inc. 0.02% 0.01% 0.01%
10 TELECOM ITALIA SPA 0.15% 0.01% 0.01%
11 ARC RESOURCES LTD. 0.33% 0.01% 0.01%
12 Swiss Prime Site AG 0.89% 0.01% 0.01%

Only in DISV

573 total
  • AEGON LTD. 0.45%
  • EMPIRE COMPANY LIMITED 0.24%
  • MULLEN GROUP LTD. 0.24%
  • GEORGIA CAPITAL PLC 0.19%
  • Porsche Automobil Holding SE 0.14%
  • OVS SPA 0.13%
  • KELT EXPLORATION LTD. 0.13%
  • CARDINAL ENERGY LTD. 0.13%
  • GLENVEAGH PROPERTIES PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.12%
  • KIER GROUP PLC 0.11%

Only in VT

9,022 total
  • NVIDIA Corp 4.06%
  • Apple Inc 3.87%
  • Microsoft Corp 2.99%
  • Amazon.com Inc 2.28%
  • Alphabet Inc 1.83%
  • Broadcom Inc 1.57%
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 1.56%
  • Alphabet Inc 1.44%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 1.06%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.81%

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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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