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DFAT vs SPY

US Small Cap vs US Large Cap.

DFA U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.8 %

43 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAT and SPY would leave roughly 0.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

DFAT unmatched 99.0% Shared 0.8% SPY unmatched 99.1%

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.

In DFAT only
1,160 positions
Shared
43 positions
In SPY only
461 positions

Side by side

DFAT

DFA U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio-ETF Class Shares

Dimensional · US Small Cap

86 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.29%
Net assets
$31.40B
TTM yield
1.33%
Top-10 conc.
6.8%
SPY

State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

State Street · US Large Cap

88 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.094%
Net assets
$796.87B
TTM yield
1.01%
Top-10 conc.
37.3%

Sub-score comparison

71
Cost
91
88
Tax efficiency
88
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
61
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Tracking quality
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DFAT sub-score SPY

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

SPY is 20 bps cheaper than DFAT. On a $100,000 position that's about $196/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 DFAT vs SPY.

Top shared holdings

43 shared in total
# Holding In DFAT In SPY Overlap
1 VIATRIS INC. 0.35% 0.03% 0.03%
2 PTC INC. 0.10% 0.03% 0.03%
3 SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC. 0.22% 0.03% 0.03%
4 BALL CORPORATION 0.69% 0.03% 0.03%
5 REVVITY, INC. 0.35% 0.03% 0.03%
6 STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC. 0.38% 0.03% 0.03%
7 GENUINE PARTS COMPANY 0.33% 0.03% 0.03%
8 IDEX CORPORATION 0.10% 0.03% 0.03%
9 LEIDOS HOLDINGS, INC. 0.11% 0.03% 0.03%
10 CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS, INC. 0.47% 0.03% 0.03%
11 ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 0.21% 0.02% 0.02%
12 APA CORPORATION 0.63% 0.02% 0.02%

Only in DFAT

1,160 total
  • PERMIAN RESOURCES CORPORATION 0.80%
  • OVINTIV INC. 0.79%
  • HF SINCLAIR CORPORATION 0.73%
  • PERFORMANCE FOOD GROUP COMPANY 0.65%
  • TOLL BROTHERS, INC. 0.63%
  • CNH Industrial N.V. 0.63%
  • BORGWARNER INC. 0.62%
  • ALLY FINANCIAL INC. 0.57%
  • ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.54%
  • FIRST HORIZON CORPORATION 0.54%

Only in SPY

461 total
  • APPLE INC 7.69%
  • NVIDIA CORP 7.30%
  • MICROSOFT CORP 6.22%
  • AMAZON.COM INC 3.94%
  • ALPHABET INC CL A 2.56%
  • BROADCOM INC 2.33%
  • META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A 2.09%
  • ALPHABET INC CL C 2.06%
  • ELI LILLY + CO 1.71%
  • TESLA INC 1.64%

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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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