ETF comparison
AVUS vs DSI
Both US Total Market.
Holdings overlap
333 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and DSI would leave roughly 43.3% 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
AVUS is 10 bps cheaper than DSI. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for DSI.
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 DSI.
Top shared holdings
333 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In DSI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 5.60% | 13.42% | 5.60% |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp | 4.36% | 9.49% | 4.36% |
| 3 | Alphabet Inc | 2.01% | 6.00% | 2.01% |
| 4 | Alphabet Inc | 1.62% | 4.77% | 1.62% |
| 5 | Lam Research Corp | 0.83% | 1.06% | 0.83% |
| 6 | Visa Inc | 0.77% | 1.78% | 0.77% |
| 7 | Caterpillar Inc | 0.72% | 1.10% | 0.72% |
| 8 | Tesla Inc | 0.66% | 2.54% | 0.66% |
| 9 | Merck & Co Inc | 0.65% | 0.93% | 0.65% |
| 10 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 0.61% | 2.25% | 0.61% |
| 11 | Mastercard Inc | 0.56% | 1.36% | 0.56% |
| 12 | Verizon Communications Inc | 0.50% | 0.57% | 0.50% |
Only in AVUS
1,565 total- Apple Inc 5.38%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.47%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.27%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.98%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.41%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 1.19%
- Broadcom Inc 1.02%
- Eli Lilly & Co 1.02%
- Costco Wholesale Corp 0.70%
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc 0.66%
Only in DSI
69 total- WELLTOWER INC. 0.48%
- PROLOGIS, INC. 0.39%
- EQUINIX, INC. 0.29%
- AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION 0.23%
- SIMON PROPERTY GROUP, INC. 0.21%
- DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC. 0.19%
- WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 0.14%
- ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. 0.14%
- CARRIER GLOBAL CORPORATION 0.13%
- VENTAS, INC. 0.13%
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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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