DFACvsDFAU

Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF or Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 80% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 1,935 stocks in both. DFAU costs 0.12% a year against 0.17% for DFAC, $5 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months DFAC returned +22.6% and DFAU +20.6%.

80%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DFAC98% in stocks the other holds too
DFAU99% 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.

DFACDFAUYearly cost0.17%0.12%Net assets$47.9B$12.4BPositions2,5542,197Last 12 months+22.6%+20.6%3 years, a year+17.7%+18.6%5 years, a year+11.8%+12.4%Largest holdingNVDA 5.3%NVDA 6.7%Main sectorTechnology 28%Technology 34%Holdings as ofJul 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 May 2021, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

DFAC$180DFAU$187
May 2021July 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (DFAC: July 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.