ETF comparison
AVUS vs DFUS
Both US Total Market.
Holdings overlap
1,712 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and DFUS would leave roughly 75.2% 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
DFUS is 6 bps cheaper than AVUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/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 DFUS.
Top shared holdings
1,712 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In DFUS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.60% | 6.75% | 5.60% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 5.38% | 6.45% | 5.38% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 4.36% | 4.99% | 4.36% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 3.47% | 3.83% | 3.47% |
| 5 | Alphabet Inc | 2.01% | 3.00% | 2.01% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 1.98% | 1.77% | 1.77% |
| 7 | Alphabet Inc | 1.62% | 2.48% | 1.62% |
| 8 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.41% | 1.37% | 1.37% |
| 9 | Micron Technology Inc | 2.27% | 1.35% | 1.35% |
| 10 | Broadcom Inc | 1.02% | 2.63% | 1.02% |
| 11 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.02% | 1.33% | 1.02% |
| 12 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 1.19% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
Only in AVUS
186 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%
- Hess Midstream LP 0.03%
- Boyd Gaming Corp 0.03%
- Waste Connections Inc 0.02%
- Hyperliquid Strategies Inc 0.02%
- Super Group SGHC Ltd 0.02%
Only in DFUS
522 total- Philip Morris International Inc. 0.43%
- Altria Group, Inc. 0.17%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.10%
- L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 0.07%
- WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 0.07%
- CARRIER GLOBAL CORPORATION 0.07%
- NASDAQ, INC. 0.06%
- MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED 0.06%
- WILLIS TOWERS WATSON PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.05%
- GE HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES INC. 0.05%
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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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