ETF comparison
AVUV vs DFAT
Both US Small Cap.
Avantis US Small Cap Value ETF · DFA U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares
Holdings overlap
635 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AVUV and DFAT would leave roughly 37.8% 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
AVUV is 4 bps cheaper than DFAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for DFAT.
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 DFAT.
Top shared holdings
635 shared in total| # | Holding | In AVUV | In DFAT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lithia Motors Inc | 0.39% | 0.46% | 0.39% |
| 2 | Avnet Inc | 0.58% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 3 | Lear Corp | 0.70% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 4 | Macy's Inc | 0.74% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 5 | Viasat Inc | 0.73% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 6 | MGIC Investment Corp | 0.50% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 7 | Mohawk Industries Inc | 0.40% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 8 | Chord Energy Corp | 0.52% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 9 | Matador Resources Co | 0.56% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 10 | NOV Inc | 0.60% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 11 | Ingredion Inc | 0.44% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 12 | OneMain Holdings Inc | 0.30% | 0.36% | 0.30% |
Only in AVUV
161 total- Lantheus Holdings Inc 0.93%
- Oscar Health Inc 0.64%
- Cheesecake Factory Inc/The 0.64%
- Archrock Inc 0.58%
- Iridium Communications Inc 0.58%
- Trex Co Inc 0.49%
- Lyft Inc 0.49%
- Polaris Inc 0.36%
- Paycom Software Inc 0.35%
- Boyd Gaming Corp 0.34%
Only in DFAT
568 total- PERMIAN RESOURCES CORPORATION 0.80%
- OVINTIV INC. 0.79%
- HF SINCLAIR CORPORATION 0.73%
- BALL CORPORATION 0.69%
- PERFORMANCE FOOD GROUP COMPANY 0.65%
- APA CORPORATION 0.63%
- TOLL BROTHERS, INC. 0.63%
- CNH Industrial N.V. 0.63%
- BORGWARNER INC. 0.62%
- THE J. M. SMUCKER COMPANY 0.61%
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- AVUV vs IJS · iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF 28.5%
- AVUV vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 28.3%
- AVUV vs VIOO · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Index Fund ETF Shares 28.1%
- AVUV vs DFAS · DFA U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 27.5%
More comparisons with DFAT
- DFAT vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 34.8%
- DFAT vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 33.7%
- DFAT vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 32.4%
- DFAT vs SCHA · Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 32.3%
- DFAT vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 32.2%
- DFAT vs VIOO · Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Index Fund ETF Shares 32.0%
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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