DFACvsSPTM
Dimensional U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF or State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 71% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 1,319 stocks in both. SPTM 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 SPTM +22.7%.
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
1,319 stocks are in both funds: 93% of DFAC and 97% of SPTM. The biggest shared positions:
Only in DFAC
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
Only in SPTM
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
More comparisons
From each fund’s Form N-PORT (DFAC: July 2026, SPTM: 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.