DFASvsIJT

Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF or iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 21% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 298 stocks in both. IJT costs 0.18% a year against 0.26% for DFAS, $8 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months DFAS returned +26.9% and IJT +35.4%.

21%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DFAS22% in stocks the other holds too
IJT88% in stocks the other holds too
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The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

DFASIJTYearly cost0.26%0.18%Net assets$15.3B$8.2BPositions2,060376Last 12 months+26.9%+35.4%3 years, a year+13.2%+16.9%5 years, a year+8.7%+7.2%Largest holdingDimensional 7.7%BlackRock 9.2%Main sectorFinancial Services 20%Industrials 18%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.

DFAS$154IJT$144
May 2021June 2026

What they both hold

298 stocks are in both funds: 22% of DFAS and 88% of IJT. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin DFASin IJT
LTH0.2%0.5%VSAT0.2%1.3%EAT0.2%0.8%SNEX0.2%0.9%KRYS0.2%1.1%ESE0.2%1.0%ALKS0.2%1.0%ETSY0.2%0.8%LAUR0.2%0.5%BTSG0.2%1.2%

Only in DFAS

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. DINOHF Sinclair Corporation0.3%
  2. JAZZJazz Pharmaceuticals plc0.3%
  3. IESCIES Holdings, Inc.0.3%
  4. ELANElanco Animal Health Incorporated0.3%
  5. WCCWESCO International, Inc.0.3%
  6. BWABorgWarner Inc.0.3%

Only in IJT

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. TRNOTerreno Realty Corporation0.5%
  2. PIImpinj, Inc.0.4%
  3. GTESGates Industrial Corporation plc0.4%
  4. MACThe Macerich Company0.4%
  5. OUTOUTFRONT Media Inc.0.4%
  6. PECOPhillips Edison & Company, Inc.0.3%

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