DFASvsSCHA

Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF or Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 60% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 1,191 stocks in both. SCHA costs 0.03% a year against 0.26% for DFAS, $23 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months DFAS returned +26.9% and SCHA +42.4%.

60%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DFAS70% in stocks the other holds too
SCHA72% 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.

DFASSCHAYearly cost0.26%0.03%Net assets$15.3B$22.8BPositions2,0601,708Last 12 months+26.9%+42.4%3 years, a year+13.2%+20.6%5 years, a year+8.7%+7.3%Largest holdingDimensional 7.7%SNDK 5.3%Main sectorFinancial Services 20%Technology 23%Holdings as ofJul 31, 2026May 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 May 2021, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

DFAS$146SCHA$142
May 2021May 2026

More comparisons

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