ETF comparison
AVUV vs DFAS
Both US Small Cap.
Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF · DFA U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares
Holdings overlap
743 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUV and DFAS would leave roughly 27.5% 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
AVUV is 2 bps cheaper than DFAS. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for DFAS.
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 AVUV vs DFAS.
Top shared holdings
743 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUV | In DFAS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viasat Inc | 0.73% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 2 | Lithia Motors Inc | 0.39% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 3 | Life Time Group Holdings Inc | 0.19% | 0.21% | 0.19% |
| 4 | StoneX Group Inc | 0.58% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 5 | Jackson Financial Inc | 0.27% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 6 | Hanover Insurance Group Inc/The | 0.53% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 7 | Columbia Banking System Inc | 0.29% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 8 | NewMarket Corp | 0.47% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 9 | First American Financial Corp | 0.28% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 10 | Oscar Health Inc | 0.64% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 11 | Mohawk Industries Inc | 0.40% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 12 | Valley National Bancorp | 0.23% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
Only in AVUV
53 total- Super Group SGHC Ltd 0.18%
- FMC Corp 0.18%
- Pagaya Technologies Ltd 0.16%
- Slide Insurance Holdings Inc 0.16%
- Kimbell Royalty Partners LP 0.15%
- Ingram Micro Holding Corp 0.14%
- Ermenegildo Zegna NV 0.11%
- XPLR Infrastructure LP 0.08%
- Navigator Holdings Ltd 0.05%
- Safe Bulkers Inc 0.04%
Only in DFAS
1,309 total- HF SINCLAIR CORPORATION 0.29%
- JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.28%
- IES HOLDINGS, INC. 0.26%
- ELANCO ANIMAL HEALTH INCORPORATED 0.26%
- WESCO INTERNATIONAL, INC. 0.25%
- BORGWARNER INC. 0.25%
- APPLIED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 0.24%
- APA CORPORATION 0.24%
- INVESCO LTD 0.24%
- TTM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 0.23%
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- AVUV vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 27.2%
- AVUV vs SPSM · State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF 26.7%
- AVUV vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 26.4%
- AVUV vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 26.3%
- AVUV vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 24.7%
- AVUV vs SCHA · Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 22.8%
More comparisons with DFAS
- DFAS vs VIOV · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value Index Fund ETF Shares 24.3%
- DFAS vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 23.7%
- DFAS vs VIOG · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth Index Fund ETF Shares 22.5%
- DFAS vs IJT · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF 21.0%
- DFAS vs CALF · Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF 11.0%
- DFAS vs ITOT · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF 7.8%
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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