ETF comparison
AVUS vs IWM
US Total Market vs US Small Cap.
Holdings overlap
1,032 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUS and IWM would leave roughly 6.6% 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 4 bps cheaper than IWM. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for IWM.
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 IWM.
Top shared holdings
1,032 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUS | In IWM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viasat Inc | 0.06% | 0.35% | 0.06% |
| 2 | SM Energy Co | 0.06% | 0.20% | 0.06% |
| 3 | Jackson Financial Inc | 0.06% | 0.19% | 0.06% |
| 4 | InterDigital Inc | 0.05% | 0.23% | 0.05% |
| 5 | Victoria's Secret & Co | 0.05% | 0.18% | 0.05% |
| 6 | Brinker International Inc | 0.04% | 0.23% | 0.04% |
| 7 | Abercrombie & Fitch Co | 0.04% | 0.12% | 0.04% |
| 8 | Matson Inc | 0.04% | 0.18% | 0.04% |
| 9 | Lantheus Holdings Inc | 0.04% | 0.22% | 0.04% |
| 10 | Oscar Health Inc | 0.04% | 0.21% | 0.04% |
| 11 | StoneX Group Inc | 0.04% | 0.27% | 0.04% |
| 12 | UMB Financial Corp | 0.04% | 0.33% | 0.04% |
Only in AVUS
866 total- NVIDIA Corp 5.60%
- Apple Inc 5.38%
- Microsoft Corp 4.36%
- Amazon.com Inc 3.47%
- Micron Technology Inc 2.27%
- Alphabet Inc 2.01%
- Meta Platforms Inc 1.98%
- Alphabet Inc 1.62%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.41%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 1.19%
Only in IWM
982 total- Hut 8 Corp. 0.37%
- Cytokinetics, Inc. 0.35%
- MaxLinear, Inc. 0.34%
- JFrog Ltd. 0.31%
- CareTrust REIT, Inc. 0.28%
- FirstCash Holdings, Inc. 0.28%
- Compass, Inc. 0.27%
- D-Wave Quantum, Inc. 0.27%
- Cipher Digital, Inc. 0.26%
- Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. 0.25%
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- AVUS vs DFAU · Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF 78.0%
- AVUS vs DFUS · Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF 75.2%
- AVUS vs SCHB · Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF 74.0%
- AVUS vs VTHR · Vanguard Russell 3000 Index Fund ETF Shares 73.7%
More comparisons with IWM
- IWM vs DFUV · Dimensional US Marketwide Value ETF 6.3%
- IWM vs IJK · iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF 6.0%
- IWM vs SCHM · Schwab U.S. Mid-Cap ETF 5.3%
- IWM vs DFAU · Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF 4.4%
- IWM vs ONEQ · Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index ETF 4.3%
- IWM vs IWV · iShares Russell 3000 ETF 4.3%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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