DFASvsVXF

Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF or Vanguard Extended Market ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 51% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 1,500 stocks in both. VXF 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 VXF +29.1%.

51%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DFAS88% in stocks the other holds too
VXF58% 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.

DFASVXFYearly cost0.26%0.05%Net assets$15.3B$97.7BPositions2,0603,379Last 12 months+26.9%+29.1%3 years, a year+13.2%+19.7%5 years, a year+8.7%+6.7%Largest holdingDimensional 7.7%Vanguard 3.7%Main sectorFinancial Services 20%Technology 19%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$154VXF$142
May 2021June 2026

More comparisons

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