DFASvsSDVY

Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF or First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 15% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 129 stocks in both. DFAS costs 0.26% a year against 0.58% for SDVY, $32 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months DFAS returned +26.9% and SDVY +23.6%.

15%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DFAS15% in stocks the other holds too
SDVY73% 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.

DFASSDVYYearly cost0.26%0.58%Net assets$15.3B$11.4BPositions2,060174Last 12 months+26.9%+23.6%3 years, a year+13.2%+16.8%5 years, a year+8.7%+10.1%Largest holdingDimensional 7.7%ENS 1.3%Main sectorFinancial Services 20%Financial Services 33%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$154SDVY$161
May 2021June 2026

More comparisons

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