Which is cheaper, DFAL or RDVY?

DFAL is cheaper, by 0.35 percentage points a year. That is about $35 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do DFAL and RDVY overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 54% of DFAL and 94% of RDVY by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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DFAL vs RDVY: Differences, Returns & Fees

DFAL and RDVY hold 18% of their weight in the same names. Net assets: $1.5bn on Jul 31, 2026 for Dimensional US Large Cap Core Equity Market ETF, and $25.5bn on Oct 9, 2026 for First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF.

DFAL costs 0.35 points a year less.

	DFAL	RDVY
Expense ratio	0.12%	0.47%
Net assets, DFAL as of Jul 31, 2026 and RDVY as of Oct 9, 2026	$1.5bn	$25.5bn
Total return, 1 year	not published	+20.2%
What it tracks	not published	Rising Dividend Achievers
Holdings in common	18%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	56.6%	23.2%
Below its high		4.9%, high on Aug 13, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jul 31, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

+6.3%

DFAL total return, since launch, Jun 23, 2026

+20.2%

RDVY total return, 1 year

0.12%

DFAL expense ratio

0.47%

RDVY expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, DFAL and RDVY hold 18% 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 Jul 31, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

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Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding DFAL RDVY

MICROSOFT CORPORATION 2.82% 2.23%

NVIDIA CORPORATION 3.93% 2.23%

ALPHABET INC. 2.09% 1.98%

APPLE INC. 3.83% 1.66%

META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.07% 2.20%

JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 0.87% 2.00%

VISA INC. 0.52% 2.16%

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 0.51% 2.21%

MASTERCARD INCORPORATED 0.43% 0.98%

CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 0.34% 0.55%

BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION 0.33% 1.91%

COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION 0.33% 1.89%

Only in DFAL

iShares Russell Top 200 Growth Index ETF 13.12%

Ishares Russell Top 200 Value Index Fund 8.84%

DFA Dimensional US Marketwide Value ETF 7.98%

Dimensional U S Core Equity 2 ETF 6.89%

iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF 4.68%

AMAZON.COM, INC. 2.38%

BROADCOM INC. 1.57%

ALPHABET INC. 1.27%

Only in RDVY

Mueller Industries, Inc. 1.42%

Everest Group, Ltd. 1.07%

Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. 0.53%

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On the same fields

DFAL

Dimensional US Large Cap Core Equity Market ETF

RDVY

First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer Dimensional First Trust

What it is Equity fund Tracks an index of Rising Dividend Achievers

Total return, 1 year +6.3% (since launch, Jun 23, 2026) +20.2%

S&P 500 over the same days +6.4% (since launch, Jun 23, 2026) +17.3%

Gap to the S&P 500 −0.1 pts (since launch, Jun 23, 2026) +3.0 pts

Expense ratio 0.12% 0.47%

Already in the S&P 500 53.9% 94.3%

Holdings 545 72

Net assets, DFAL as of Jul 31, 2026 and RDVY as of Oct 9, 2026 $1.5bn $25.5bn

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

DFAL in plain words

The prospectus expense ratio is 0.12% a year. By its holdings filed for Jul 31, 2026, 54% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 545 positions, with the top ten at 56.6%.

RDVY in plain words

RDVY tracks an index of Rising Dividend Achievers. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +20.2% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.47% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 94% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 72 positions, with the top ten at 23.2%. It sat 4.9% below its high of Aug 13, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which is cheaper, DFAL or RDVY?: DFAL is cheaper, by 0.35 percentage points a year. That is about $35 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do DFAL and RDVY overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 54% of DFAL and 94% of RDVY by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Where these figures came from

DFAL filings on SEC EDGAR ↗DFAL prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Dimensional website ↗RDVY filings on SEC EDGAR ↗RDVY prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for RDVY ↗

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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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