ETF comparison
DFAU vs IWV
Both US Total Market.
Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF · iShares Russell 3000 ETF
Holdings overlap
1,975 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and IWV would leave roughly 88.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
DFAU is 8 bps cheaper than IWV. On a $100,000 position that's about $80/yr more in fees for IWV.
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 IWV.
Top shared holdings
1,975 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In IWV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.83% | 6.50% | 6.50% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 5.76% | 5.82% | 5.76% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.62% | 4.37% | 4.37% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.66% | 3.18% | 3.18% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.06% | 2.66% | 2.66% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.59% | 2.27% | 2.27% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.53% | 2.16% | 2.16% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 2.03% | 1.99% | 1.99% |
| 9 | TESLA, INC. | 1.52% | 1.67% | 1.52% |
| 10 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.20% | 1.27% | 1.20% |
| 11 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.07% | 1.41% | 1.07% |
| 12 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.06% | 1.17% | 1.06% |
Only in DFAU
211 total- DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP 2.15%
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.23%
- NXP Semiconductors N.V. 0.15%
- TE CONNECTIVITY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.12%
- COREBRIDGE FINANCIAL, INC. 0.03%
- COREWEAVE, INC. 0.02%
- AUTOLIV, INC. 0.02%
- ERIE INDEMNITY COMPANY 0.01%
- FEDERATED HERMES, INC. 0.01%
- Copa Holdings, S.A. 0.01%
Only in IWV
613 total- Welltower Inc. 0.22%
- Prologis Inc. 0.19%
- Equinix, Inc. 0.15%
- American Tower Corporation 0.13%
- Digital Realty Trust Inc. 0.10%
- Simon Property Group Inc 0.10%
- Realty Income Corporation 0.09%
- Anglogold Ashanti PLC 0.08%
- NU HOLDINGS LTD 0.08%
- Public Storage 0.07%
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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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