ETF comparison
AVUS vs DFAC
Both US Total Market.
Holdings overlap
1,795 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and DFAC would leave roughly 79.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
AVUS is 2 bps cheaper than DFAC. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for DFAC.
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 AVUS vs DFAC.
Top shared holdings
1,795 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In DFAC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 4.73% | 5.60% | 4.73% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 4.87% | 4.68% | 4.68% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 3.53% | 3.92% | 3.53% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.12% | 3.06% | 3.06% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.58% | 2.14% | 2.14% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.40% | 1.87% | 1.87% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 2.07% | 1.69% | 1.69% |
| 8 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.31% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 9 | Broadcom Inc | 1.00% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 10 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 1.17% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co | 0.79% | 0.87% | 0.79% |
| 12 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.74% | 0.82% | 0.74% |
Only in AVUS
134 total- MercadoLibre Inc 0.14%
- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund 0.07%
- Air Lease Corp 0.04%
- Strategy Inc 0.03%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.03%
- NU Holdings Ltd/Cayman Islands 0.03%
- Celsius Holdings Inc 0.03%
- Hess Midstream LP 0.02%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.02%
- Hologic Inc 0.02%
Only in DFAC
748 total- DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP 3.35%
- LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC. 0.18%
- FERGUSON ENTERPRISES INC. 0.16%
- Philip Morris International Inc. 0.10%
- OMNICOM GROUP INC. 0.10%
- LEIDOS HOLDINGS, INC. 0.08%
- CARRIER GLOBAL CORPORATION 0.08%
- WILLIS TOWERS WATSON PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.08%
- EQUIFAX INC. 0.07%
- MKS, INCORPORATED. 0.07%
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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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