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BAFE vs VTI: Differences, Returns & Fees

BAFE and VTI hold 27% of their weight in the same names, and VTI returned +16.8% over the year. Net assets: $1.7bn on Jun 30, 2026 for Brown Advisory Flexible Equity ETF, and $689.2bn on Sep 30, 2026 for Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF.

VTI costs 0.51 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 4.5 points; VTI is far larger, $2.30tn against $1.7bn.

BAFE vs VTI: Differences, Returns & Fees
BAFEVTI
Expense ratio0.54%0.03%
Net assets, as of Jun 30, 2026$1.7bn$2.30tn
Total return, 1 year+12.3%+16.8%
What it tracksNo index, actively managedCRSP US Total Market Index
Holdings in common27%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund42.2%33.5%

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Aug 31, 2026.

+12.3%
BAFE total return, 1 year
+16.8%
VTI total return, 1 year
0.54%
BAFE expense ratio
0.03%
VTI expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, BAFE and VTI hold 27% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Aug 31, 2026.

half

27% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding BAFE VTI
MICROSOFT CORPORATION 4.85% 5.11%
AMAZON.COM, INC. 4.33% 3.41%
NVIDIA CORPORATION 3.06% 6.88%
ALPHABET INC. 4.04% 2.70%
ALPHABET INC. 3.83% 2.12%
META PLATFORMS, INC. 3.64% 1.70%
APPLE INC. 1.69% 6.30%
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 3.33% 1.23%
VISA INC. 4.07% 0.85%
MASTERCARD INCORPORATED 3.52% 0.63%
BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION 1.66% 0.54%
UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED 3.24% 0.48%
Only in BAFE
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 7.09%
Suncor Energy Inc. 2.24%
Amer Sports, Inc 1.80%
SAP SE 1.49%
SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY S.A. 1.34%
Nomad Foods Limited 0.48%
Only in VTI
Broadcom Inc 2.38%
Micron Technology Inc 1.47%
Tesla Inc 1.40%
Eli Lilly & Co 1.33%
JPMorgan Chase & Co 1.29%
Advanced Micro Devices Inc 1.04%
ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 0.90%
Johnson & Johnson 0.87%

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On the same fields

BAFE
Brown Advisory Flexible Equity ETF
VTI
Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF
Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF
Issuer BROWN Vanguard
What it is Actively managed Tracks an index of US total market
Total return, 1 year +12.3% +16.8%
Its benchmark over the same days +17.3% (VOO) not published
Gap to its benchmark −5.0 pts vs VOO not available
Expense ratio 0.54% 0.03%
Already in the S&P 500 77.5% 88.1%
Holdings 44 3509
Net assets, BAFE as of Jun 30, 2026 and VTI as of Sep 30, 2026 $1.7bn $689.2bn

BAFE and VTI on the fields both publish, as of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

About BAFE

BAFE is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +12.3% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.54% a year. By its holdings filed for Jun 30, 2026, 78% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 44 positions, with the top ten at 42.2%.

About VTI

VTI tracks an index of US total market. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +16.8% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.03% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer as of Aug 31, 2026, 88% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 3,509 positions, with the top ten at 33.5%.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, BAFE or VTI?
In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BAFE returned +12.3% and VTI +16.8%.
Which is cheaper, BAFE or VTI?
VTI is cheaper, by 0.51 percentage points a year. That is about $51 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do BAFE and VTI overlap with the S&P 500?
By their latest filed holdings, 78% of BAFE and 88% of VTI by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.
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Where these figures came from
BAFE filings on SEC EDGAR ↗BAFE prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗BROWN website ↗VTI filings on SEC EDGAR ↗VTI prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Vanguard page for VTI ↗

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How this is computed

Overlap adds up the smaller of the two weights for each security both funds hold.

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