DFAUvsIWV

Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF or iShares Russell 3000 ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 86% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 1,879 stocks in both. DFAU costs 0.12% a year against 0.20% for IWV, $8 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months DFAU returned +20.6% and IWV +22.6%.

86%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DFAU99% in stocks the other holds too
IWV95% 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.

DFAUIWVYearly cost0.12%0.20%Net assets$12.4B$19.5BPositions2,1972,596Last 12 months+20.6%+22.6%3 years, a year+18.6%+20.1%5 years, a year+12.4%+12.1%Largest holdingNVDA 6.7%NVDA 6.4%Main sectorTechnology 34%Technology 35%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 November 2020, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

DFAU$220IWV$239
November 2020June 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (DFAU: July 2026, IWV: 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.