ETF comparison
DFAU vs SCHK
Both US Total Market.
Holdings overlap
878 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFAU and SCHK would leave roughly 87.9% 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
SCHK 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 SCHK.
Top shared holdings
878 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFAU | In SCHK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.74% | 7.49% | 6.74% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 6.52% | 6.45% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 5.09% | 5.28% | 5.09% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.59% | 3.56% | 3.56% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.74% | 2.79% | 2.74% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.34% | 2.46% | 2.34% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.28% | 2.22% | 2.22% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.79% | 1.76% | 1.76% |
| 9 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.39% | 1.52% | 1.39% |
| 10 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.28% | 1.34% | 1.28% |
| 11 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.24% | 1.28% | 1.24% |
| 12 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.11% | 1.30% | 1.11% |
Only in DFAU
1,312 total- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.06%
- HEICO CORPORATION 0.03%
- JAMES HARDIE INDUSTRIES PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 0.02%
- FOX CORPORATION 0.02%
- VIASAT, INC. 0.02%
- WEBSTER FINANCIAL CORPORATION 0.02%
- ONTO INNOVATION INC. 0.02%
- SOUTHERN COPPER CORPORATION 0.02%
- TTM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 0.02%
- BRIGHTSPRING HEALTH SERVICES, INC. 0.02%
Only in SCHK
102 total- Welltower Inc 0.23%
- Prologis Inc 0.19%
- Equinix Inc 0.14%
- American Tower Corp 0.11%
- Simon Property Group Inc 0.10%
- Digital Realty Trust Inc 0.09%
- Realty Income Corp 0.08%
- Public Storage 0.07%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 0.07%
- Vivmark Residential 0.07%
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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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