ETF comparison
AVUS vs DGRO
US Total Market vs Dividend.
Holdings overlap
355 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and DGRO would leave roughly 39.8% 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
DGRO is 7 bps cheaper than AVUS. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/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 DGRO.
Top shared holdings
355 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In DGRO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp | 4.36% | 3.24% | 3.24% |
| 2 | Apple Inc | 5.38% | 2.86% | 2.86% |
| 3 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.41% | 3.16% | 1.41% |
| 4 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 1.19% | 2.87% | 1.19% |
| 5 | Broadcom Inc | 1.02% | 2.55% | 1.02% |
| 6 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.02% | 1.19% | 1.02% |
| 7 | Visa Inc | 0.77% | 1.10% | 0.77% |
| 8 | Johnson & Johnson | 0.66% | 3.07% | 0.66% |
| 9 | Merck & Co Inc | 0.65% | 1.91% | 0.65% |
| 10 | Mastercard Inc | 0.56% | 0.72% | 0.56% |
| 11 | Walmart Inc | 0.55% | 0.87% | 0.55% |
| 12 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 0.70% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
Only in AVUS
1,543 total- NVIDIA Corp 5.60%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.47%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.27%
- Alphabet Inc 2.01%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.98%
- Alphabet Inc 1.62%
- Tesla Inc 0.66%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 0.66%
- Chevron Corp 0.61%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 0.61%
Only in DGRO
35 total- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL INC 2.13%
- ARES MANAGEMENT CORP 0.25%
- L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INC 0.18%
- MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC 0.17%
- CARRIER GLOBAL CORP 0.15%
- CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC 0.13%
- MCCORMICK & CO. INC 0.11%
- WILLIS TOWERS WATSON PLC 0.10%
- QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INC 0.10%
- NASDAQ INC 0.09%
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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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