ETF comparison
AVUS vs DFAU
Both US Total Market.
Avantis US Equity ETF · Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,709 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and DFAU would leave roughly 77.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
DFAU is 3 bps cheaper than AVUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for AVUS.
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 DFAU.
Top shared holdings
1,709 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In DFAU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apple Inc | 4.87% | 5.76% | 4.87% |
| 2 | NVIDIA Corp | 4.73% | 6.83% | 4.73% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 3.53% | 4.62% | 3.53% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.12% | 3.66% | 3.12% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.58% | 3.06% | 2.58% |
| 6 | Alphabet Inc | 2.07% | 2.53% | 2.07% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 2.40% | 2.03% | 2.03% |
| 8 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.31% | 1.20% | 1.20% |
| 9 | Broadcom Inc | 1.00% | 2.59% | 1.00% |
| 10 | Micron Technology Inc | 1.09% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
| 11 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 1.17% | 0.92% | 0.92% |
| 12 | Tesla Inc | 0.80% | 1.52% | 0.80% |
Only in AVUS
220 total- MercadoLibre Inc 0.14%
- State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund 0.07%
- Masimo Corp 0.05%
- 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%
Only in DFAU
477 total- DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP 2.15%
- Philip Morris International Inc. 0.32%
- Altria Group, Inc. 0.15%
- FERGUSON ENTERPRISES INC. 0.11%
- CARRIER GLOBAL CORPORATION 0.10%
- LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC. 0.07%
- MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED 0.07%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.06%
- ROPER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 0.05%
- FISERV, INC. 0.05%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.