DFAX
International TotalDimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF
Dimensional · Tracks (systematic — no single index) · Inception Mar 6, 2008
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- +16.5%
- 3 year
- +21.8%
- annualized
- 5 year
- +9.7%
- annualized
Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.
Composite score
Based on a 0.28% expense ratio.
Based on $12.40B in net assets.
Top-10 holdings represent 8.2% of net assets.
International Total base · ETF wrapper · 2.49% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.2).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 1.87% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 1.34% |
| 3 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 0.99% |
| 4 | SK hynix Inc. | 0.81% |
| 5 | Novartis AG | 0.67% |
| 6 | ASML Holding N.V. | 0.62% |
| 7 | TOTALENERGIES SE | 0.54% |
| 8 | Tencent Holdings Limited | 0.49% |
| 9 | SHELL PLC | 0.48% |
| 10 | Nestle S.A. | 0.40% |
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- VSGX Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF 48.6% overlap
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