DFAUvsPRF

Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF or Invesco RAFI US 1000 ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 65% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 873 stocks in both. DFAU costs 0.12% a year against 0.34% for PRF, $22 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months DFAU returned +20.6% and PRF +30.4%.

65%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DFAU91% in stocks the other holds too
PRF96% 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.

DFAUPRFYearly cost0.12%0.34%Net assets$12.4B$9.8BPositions2,1971,003Last 12 months+20.6%+30.4%3 years, a year+18.6%+19.3%5 years, a year+12.4%+13.3%Largest holdingNVDA 6.7%AAPL 4.3%Main sectorTechnology 34%Technology 20%Holdings as ofJul 31, 2026Jul 31, 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$220PRF$270
November 2020July 2026

What they both hold

873 stocks are in both funds: 91% of DFAU and 96% of PRF. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin DFAUin PRF
AAPL6.4%4.3%GOOGL2.7%3.7%MSFT5.1%2.6%AMZN3.6%2.3%META1.8%1.4%JPM1.3%1.7%BRK-B1.1%1.8%MU1.4%0.9%XOM0.9%1.9%JNJ0.7%1.1%

Only in DFAU

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. GOOGAlphabet Inc. (Class C)2.3%
  2. NXPINXP Semiconductors0.1%
  3. GRMNGarmin0.1%
  4. CVNACarvana0.1%
  5. LYVLive Nation Entertainment0.1%
  6. SPOTSpotify Technology S.A.0.1%

Only in PRF

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. PLDPrologis0.2%
  2. WELLWelltower0.1%
  3. ORealty Income0.1%
  4. DLRDigital Realty0.1%
  5. AMTAmerican Tower0.1%
  6. WYWeyerhaeuser0.1%

More comparisons

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