DFASvsDFSV

Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF or Dimensional US Small Cap Value ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 38% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 766 stocks in both. DFAS costs 0.26% a year against 0.30% for DFSV, $4 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months DFAS returned +26.9% and DFSV +35.0%.

38%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DFAS42% in stocks the other holds too
DFSV93% 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.

DFASDFSVYearly cost0.26%0.30%Net assets$15.3B$8.2BPositions2,0601,000Last 12 months+26.9%+35.0%3 years, a year+13.2%+14.4%5 years, a year+8.7%n/aLargest holdingDimensional 7.7%Dimensional 5.7%Main sectorFinancial Services 20%Financial Services 28%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 February 2022, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

DFAS$153DFSV$165
February 2022July 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (DFAS: July 2026, DFSV: 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.