AVUSvsDFAU

Avantis U.S. Equity ETF or Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 77% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 1,557 stocks in both. DFAU costs 0.12% a year against 0.15% for AVUS, $3 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months AVUS returned +33.7% and DFAU +20.6%.

77%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
AVUS98% in stocks the other holds too
DFAU95% in stocks the other holds too
stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

AVUSDFAUYearly cost0.15%0.12%Net assets$13.3B$12.4BPositions1,8792,197Last 12 months+33.7%+20.6%3 years, a year+23.6%+18.6%5 years, a year+13.2%+12.4%Largest holdingNVDA 5.5%NVDA 6.7%Main sectorTechnology 30%Technology 34%Holdings as ofMay 31, 2026Jul 31, 2026

Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.

Growth of $100

Both funds from November 2020, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

AVUS$257DFAU$220
November 2020May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (AVUS: May 2026, DFAU: July 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.