AVUVvsDFAS
Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF or Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 26% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 599 stocks in both. AVUV costs 0.25% a year against 0.26% for DFAS, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months AVUV returned +38.3% and DFAS +26.9%.
The two funds
From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.
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 May 2021, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.
What they both hold
599 stocks are in both funds: 92% of AVUV and 30% of DFAS. The biggest shared positions:
Only in AVUV
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
Only in DFAS
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
More comparisons
From each fund’s Form N-PORT (AVUV: May 2026, DFAS: 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.