ETF comparison
DFUS vs SPY
US Total Market vs US Large Cap.
Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Holdings overlap
473 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFUS and SPY would leave roughly 87.2% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.090% vs 0.094%).
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 DFUS vs SPY.
Top shared holdings
473 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFUS | In SPY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA CORPORATION | 6.75% | 7.30% | 6.75% |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 6.45% | 7.69% | 6.45% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 4.99% | 6.22% | 4.99% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM, INC. | 3.83% | 3.94% | 3.83% |
| 5 | ALPHABET INC. | 3.00% | 2.56% | 2.56% |
| 6 | BROADCOM INC. | 2.63% | 2.33% | 2.33% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC. | 2.48% | 2.06% | 2.06% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 1.77% | 2.09% | 1.77% |
| 9 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. | 1.38% | 1.63% | 1.38% |
| 10 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. | 1.37% | 1.41% | 1.37% |
| 11 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 1.35% | 1.35% | 1.35% |
| 12 | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | 1.33% | 1.71% | 1.33% |
Only in DFUS
1,761 total- SNOWFLAKE INC. 0.13%
- CLOUDFLARE, INC. 0.13%
- SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 0.10%
- WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY, INC. 0.08%
- ONEOK, INC. 0.08%
- CHENIERE ENERGY, INC. 0.08%
- CORTEVA, INC. 0.08%
- Astera Labs Inc 0.06%
- KENVUE INC. 0.06%
- NATERA, INC. 0.05%
Only in SPY
31 total- WELLTOWER INC 0.27%
- PROLOGIS INC 0.19%
- EQUINIX INC 0.16%
- AMERICAN TOWER CORP 0.14%
- SIMON PROPERTY GROUP INC 0.11%
- DIGITAL REALTY TRUST INC 0.10%
- PUBLIC STORAGE 0.09%
- REALTY INCOME CORP 0.08%
- ONEOK INC 0.08%
- VYLOR INC 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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