ETF comparison
DFAU vs ITOT
Both US Total Market.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF
Holdings overlap
1,907 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and ITOT would leave roughly 89.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
ITOT is 9 bps cheaper than DFAU. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/yr more in fees for DFAU.
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 DFAU vs ITOT.
Top shared holdings
1,907 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In ITOT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.83% | 6.69% | 6.69% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 5.76% | 5.88% | 5.76% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.62% | 4.34% | 4.34% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.66% | 3.21% | 3.21% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.06% | 2.64% | 2.64% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.59% | 2.32% | 2.32% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.53% | 2.12% | 2.12% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 2.03% | 1.98% | 1.98% |
| 9 | TESLA, INC. | 1.52% | 1.65% | 1.52% |
| 10 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.20% | 1.25% | 1.20% |
| 11 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.07% | 1.39% | 1.07% |
| 12 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.06% | 1.15% | 1.06% |
Only in DFAU
279 total- DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP 2.15%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.06%
- COREBRIDGE FINANCIAL, INC. 0.03%
- GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC. 0.02%
- SOUTHERN COPPER CORPORATION 0.02%
- Amdocs Limited 0.01%
- BIRKENSTOCK HOLDING PLC 0.01%
- Copa Holdings, S.A. 0.01%
- SCORPIO TANKERS INC. 0.01%
- JFROG LTD 0.01%
Only in ITOT
583 total- BlackRock Funds III 1.15%
- Welltower, Inc. 0.22%
- Prologis, Inc. 0.19%
- BlackRock Funds III 0.19%
- Equinix, Inc. 0.15%
- American Tower Corp. 0.13%
- Simon Property Group, Inc. 0.10%
- Digital Realty Trust, Inc. 0.09%
- Realty Income Corp. 0.09%
- Public Storage 0.07%
Open DFAU or ITOT at a brokerage
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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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