ETF comparison
DFAS vs SCHA
Both US Small Cap.
DFA U.S. Small Cap Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF
Holdings overlap
1,304 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAS and SCHA would leave roughly 63.5% 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
SCHA is 24 bps cheaper than DFAS. On a $100,000 position that's about $240/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 SCHA.
Top shared holdings
1,304 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAS | In SCHA | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLIED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 0.24% | 0.25% | 0.24% |
| 2 | TTM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 0.23% | 0.26% | 0.23% |
| 3 | Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. | 0.23% | 0.32% | 0.23% |
| 4 | Popular, Inc. | 0.22% | 0.23% | 0.22% |
| 5 | UMB FINANCIAL CORPORATION | 0.21% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 6 | LITTELFUSE, INC. | 0.21% | 0.22% | 0.21% |
| 7 | MOOG INC. | 0.21% | 0.22% | 0.21% |
| 8 | WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORPORATION | 0.21% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 9 | ADVANCED ENERGY INDUSTRIES, INC. | 0.20% | 0.22% | 0.20% |
| 10 | ONTO INNOVATION INC. | 0.20% | 0.28% | 0.20% |
| 11 | AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUP, INC. | 0.20% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 12 | SANMINA CORPORATION | 0.20% | 0.22% | 0.20% |
Only in DFAS
748 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 SCHA
401 total- Sandisk Corp 4.87%
- Lumentum Holdings Inc 1.49%
- Revolution Medicines Inc 0.86%
- ATI Inc 0.59%
- Guardant Health Inc 0.44%
- MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc 0.36%
- Samsara Inc 0.32%
- BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc 0.30%
- Sterling Infrastructure Inc 0.30%
- Bridgebio Pharma Inc 0.28%
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- DFAS vs DFAT · DFA U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares 49.9%
- DFAS vs VBR · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF 49.5%
- DFAS vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 45.6%
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- SCHA vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 58.6%
- SCHA vs IWM · iShares Russell 2000 ETF 58.1%
- SCHA vs BBSC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF 52.8%
- SCHA vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 45.5%
- SCHA vs FNDA · Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF 44.5%
- SCHA vs VBR · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF 39.5%
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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