DFACvsITOT

Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF or iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 72% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 1,855 stocks in both. ITOT costs 0.03% a year against 0.17% for DFAC, $14 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months DFAC returned +22.6% and ITOT +23.1%.

72%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DFAC98% in stocks the other holds too
ITOT96% 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.

DFACITOTYearly cost0.17%0.03%Net assets$47.9B$94.1BPositions2,5542,503Last 12 months+22.6%+23.1%3 years, a year+17.7%+20.4%5 years, a year+11.8%+12.2%Largest holdingNVDA 5.3%NVDA 6.6%Main sectorTechnology 28%Technology 36%Holdings as ofJul 31, 2026Jun 30, 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$180ITOT$183
May 2021June 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (DFAC: July 2026, ITOT: June 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.