DFASvsSCHM

Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF or Schwab U.S. Mid-Cap ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 37% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 334 stocks in both. SCHM 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 SCHM +32.5%.

37%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DFAS42% in stocks the other holds too
SCHM51% 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.

DFASSCHMYearly cost0.26%0.03%Net assets$15.3B$14.6BPositions2,060499Last 12 months+26.9%+32.5%3 years, a year+13.2%+19.1%5 years, a year+8.7%+7.9%Largest holdingDimensional 7.7%SNDK 4.6%Main sectorFinancial Services 20%Technology 22%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$146SCHM$146
May 2021May 2026

More comparisons

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