DFASvsVBR

Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF or Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 47% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 605 stocks in both. VBR costs 0.05% a year against 0.26% for DFAS, $21 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months DFAS returned +26.9% and VBR +27.0%.

47%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DFAS54% in stocks the other holds too
VBR64% 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.

DFASVBRYearly cost0.26%0.05%Net assets$15.3B$67.8BPositions2,060845Last 12 months+26.9%+27.0%3 years, a year+13.2%+16.1%5 years, a year+8.7%+9.2%Largest holdingDimensional 7.7%Vanguard 0.9%Main sectorFinancial Services 20%Industrials 17%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$154VBR$157
May 2021June 2026

More comparisons

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