DFATvsIJR

Dimensional U.S. Targeted Value ETF or iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 30% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 341 stocks in both. IJR costs 0.06% a year against 0.28% for DFAT, $22 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months DFAT returned +32.1% and IJR +37.5%.

30%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DFAT31% in stocks the other holds too
IJR50% 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.

DFATIJRYearly cost0.28%0.06%Net assets$14.5B$111.3BPositions1,211683Last 12 months+32.1%+37.5%3 years, a year+14.2%+16.0%5 years, a year+11.5%+7.3%Largest holdingDimensional 4.1%Blackrock 5.4%Main sectorFinancial Services 28%Financial Services 16%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.

DFAT$168IJR$146
May 2021June 2026

What they both hold

341 stocks are in both funds: 31% of DFAT and 50% of IJR. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin DFATin IJR
LTH0.4%0.3%VSAT0.3%0.7%MHK0.3%0.3%MATX0.3%0.3%ABCB0.3%0.3%LNC0.3%0.3%MOH0.3%0.6%EMN0.3%0.4%NE0.2%0.3%RUSHA0.2%0.2%

Only in DFAT

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. PRPermian Resources Corporation0.8%
  2. DINOHF Sinclair Corporation0.7%
  3. BALLBall Corporation0.7%
  4. PFGCPerformance Food Group Company0.7%
  5. APAAPA Corporation0.6%
  6. TOLToll Brothers, Inc.0.6%

Only in IJR

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. FORMFormFactor, Inc.0.7%
  2. AGXArgan, Inc.0.6%
  3. BTSGBrightSpring Health Services, Inc.0.6%
  4. MXLMaxLinear, Inc.0.6%
  5. KRYSKrystal Biotech, Inc.0.5%
  6. ESEESCO Technologies Inc.0.5%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (DFAT: July 2026, IJR: 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.