ETF comparison
AVUS vs DFAU
Both US Total Market.
Avantis US Equity ETF · Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,682 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and DFAU would leave roughly 78.0% 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
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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
1,682 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In DFAU | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.60% | 6.74% | 5.60% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 5.38% | 6.45% | 5.38% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 4.36% | 5.09% | 4.36% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.47% | 3.59% | 3.47% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.01% | 2.74% | 2.01% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.98% | 1.79% | 1.79% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 1.62% | 2.28% | 1.62% |
| 8 | Micron Technology Inc | 2.27% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 9 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.41% | 1.28% | 1.28% |
| 10 | Broadcom Inc | 1.02% | 2.34% | 1.02% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.02% | 1.24% | 1.02% |
| 12 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 1.19% | 0.88% | 0.88% |
Only in AVUS
216 total- MercadoLibre Inc 0.11%
- Strategy Inc 0.05%
- Viking Holdings Ltd 0.04%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.04%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.04%
- FactSet Research Systems Inc 0.04%
- Hess Midstream LP 0.03%
- MarketAxess Holdings Inc 0.02%
- Graphic Packaging Holding Co 0.02%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.02%
Only in DFAU
508 total- Philip Morris International Inc. 0.35%
- Altria Group, Inc. 0.13%
- NASDAQ, INC. 0.09%
- CARRIER GLOBAL CORPORATION 0.09%
- L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 0.09%
- WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 0.08%
- WILLIS TOWERS WATSON PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.06%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.06%
- MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED 0.06%
- GE HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES INC. 0.06%
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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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