ETF comparison
DFAS vs FNDA
Both US Small Cap.
DFA U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF
Holdings overlap
723 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAS and FNDA would leave roughly 45.6% 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
FNDA 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 DFAS vs FNDA.
Top shared holdings
723 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAS | In FNDA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLIED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 0.24% | 0.29% | 0.24% |
| 2 | LITTELFUSE, INC. | 0.21% | 0.26% | 0.21% |
| 3 | MOOG INC. | 0.21% | 0.25% | 0.21% |
| 4 | WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORPORATION | 0.21% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 5 | EXELIXIS, INC. | 0.21% | 0.24% | 0.21% |
| 6 | TTM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 0.23% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 7 | SOUTHSTATE BANK CORPORATION | 0.20% | 0.23% | 0.20% |
| 8 | BRUKER CORPORATION | 0.20% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 9 | STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP. | 0.20% | 0.25% | 0.20% |
| 10 | PROSPERITY BANCSHARES, INC. | 0.19% | 0.22% | 0.19% |
| 11 | Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. | 0.23% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 12 | VIASAT, INC. | 0.19% | 0.30% | 0.19% |
Only in DFAS
1,329 total- HF SINCLAIR CORPORATION 0.29%
- JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.28%
- ELANCO ANIMAL HEALTH INCORPORATED 0.26%
- WESCO INTERNATIONAL, INC. 0.25%
- BORGWARNER INC. 0.25%
- APA CORPORATION 0.24%
- INVESCO LTD 0.24%
- CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. 0.22%
- ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.22%
- ARAMARK 0.22%
Only in FNDA
190 total- Lumentum Holdings Inc 0.55%
- Compass Inc 0.43%
- Twilio Inc 0.34%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.32%
- Coherent Corp 0.32%
- ATI Inc 0.31%
- Southern Copper Corp 0.30%
- DoorDash Inc 0.30%
- Entegris Inc 0.29%
- Dexcom Inc 0.29%
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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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