ETF comparison
DFSV vs SPY
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap.
DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Portfolio – ETF Class Shares · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
20 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFSV and SPY would leave roughly 0.4% 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
SPY is 22 bps cheaper than DFSV. On a $100,000 position that's about $216/yr more in fees for DFSV.
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 DFSV vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
20 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFSV | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC. | 0.48% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 2 | REVVITY, INC. | 0.43% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 3 | STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC. | 0.53% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 4 | APA CORPORATION | 0.66% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 5 | CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. | 0.12% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 6 | Everest Group Ltd | 0.03% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 7 | THE J. M. SMUCKER COMPANY | 0.40% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 8 | BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. | 0.37% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 9 | INVESCO LTD | 0.76% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | MCCORMICK & COMPANY, INCORPORATED | 0.16% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | TRIMBLE INC. | 0.03% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | THE COOPER COMPANIES, INC. | 0.13% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in DFSV
974 total- HF SINCLAIR CORPORATION 0.75%
- BORGWARNER INC. 0.75%
- KNIGHT-SWIFT TRANSPORTATION HOLDINGS INC. 0.70%
- OVINTIV INC. 0.70%
- ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC. 0.69%
- ELANCO ANIMAL HEALTH INCORPORATED 0.64%
- WESCO INTERNATIONAL, INC. 0.62%
- ZIONS BANCORPORATION, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 0.61%
- SOUTHSTATE BANK CORPORATION 0.61%
- LITHIA MOTORS, INC. 0.59%
Only in SPY
484 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
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/methodology/.
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