DFAUvsVT

Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF or Vanguard Total World Stock ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 59% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 1,288 stocks in both. VT costs 0.06% a year against 0.12% for DFAU, $6 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months DFAU returned +20.6% and VT +22.3%.

59%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
DFAU98% in stocks the other holds too
VT59% 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.

DFAUVTYearly cost0.12%0.06%Net assets$12.4B$97.9BPositions2,19710,100Last 12 months+20.6%+22.3%3 years, a year+18.6%+18.0%5 years, a year+12.4%+10.6%Largest holdingNVDA 6.7%NVDA 4.1%Main sectorTechnology 34%Technology 22%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$220VT$222
November 2020July 2026

More comparisons

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