DFASvsIJR
Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF or iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 33% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 516 stocks in both. IJR costs 0.06% a year against 0.26% for DFAS, $20 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months DFAS returned +26.9% and IJR +37.5%.
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
516 stocks are in both funds: 33% of DFAS and 86% of IJR. The biggest shared positions:
Only in DFAS
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
Only in IJR
Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.
More comparisons
From each fund’s Form N-PORT (DFAS: July 2026, IJR: 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.