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DFUS vs QDF: Differences, Returns & Fees

DFUS and QDF hold 37% of their weight in the same names. Net assets on Jul 31, 2026: $20.9bn for Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF and $2.2bn for Northern Trust Quality Dividend ETF.

DFUS costs 0.30 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 0.1 points; DFUS is 9.4 times larger.

DFUS vs QDF: Differences, Returns & Fees
DFUSQDF
Expense ratio0.09%0.39%
Net assets, as of Jul 31, 2026$20.9bn$2.2bn
Total return, 1 year+17.3%+17.4%
What it tracksNo index, actively managedNorthern Trust Quality Dividend Index
Holdings in common37%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund34.6%39.4%

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jul 31, 2026.

+17.3%
DFUS total return, 1 year
+17.4%
QDF total return, 1 year
0.09%
DFUS expense ratio
0.39%
QDF expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, DFUS and QDF hold 37% 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.

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37% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding DFUS QDF
APPLE INC. 6.45% 8.67%
NVIDIA CORPORATION 6.75% 6.33%
MICROSOFT CORPORATION 4.99% 3.97%
BROADCOM INC. 2.63% 4.01%
ALPHABET INC. 3.00% 2.40%
ALPHABET INC. 2.48% 1.95%
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.37% 2.56%
JOHNSON & JOHNSON 0.90% 2.81%
ELI LILLY AND COMPANY 1.33% 0.71%
CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. 0.67% 2.96%
ABBVIE INC. 0.64% 2.94%
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 0.55% 2.62%
Only in DFUS
AMAZON.COM, INC. 3.83%
META PLATFORMS, INC. 1.77%
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. 1.38%
MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. 1.35%
TESLA, INC. 1.27%
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. 1.12%
WALMART INC. 0.71%
INTEL CORPORATION 0.62%
Only in QDF
Public Storage 0.60%
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. 0.58%
Electronic Arts, Inc. 0.56%
Federal Realty Investment Trust 0.54%
Camden Property Trust 0.52%
First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. 0.51%
AvalonBay Communities, Inc. 0.51%
EPR Properties 0.49%

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On the same fields

DFUS
Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF
QDF
Northern Trust Quality Dividend ETF
Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF
Issuer Dimensional Northern Trust
What it is Actively managed Tracks an index
Total return, 1 year +17.3% +17.4%
Its benchmark over the same days +16.7% (IWV) not published
Gap to its benchmark +0.6 pts vs IWV not available
Expense ratio 0.09% 0.39%
Already in the S&P 500 89.4% 85.9%
Holdings 2236 123
Net assets, as of Jul 31, 2026 $20.9bn $2.2bn

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

About DFUS

DFUS is actively managed and tracks no index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.09% a year. By its holdings filed for Jul 31, 2026, 89% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 2,236 positions, with the top ten at 34.6%.

Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +17.3% with distributions reinvested, against +16.7% for its benchmark, the Russell 3000 Index.

About QDF

QDF tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +17.4% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.39% a year. By its holdings filed for Jul 31, 2026, 86% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 123 positions, with the top ten at 39.4%.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, DFUS or QDF?
In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, DFUS returned +17.3% and QDF +17.4%.
Which is cheaper, DFUS or QDF?
DFUS is cheaper, by 0.30 percentage points a year. That is about $30 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do DFUS and QDF overlap with the S&P 500?
By their latest filed holdings, 89% of DFUS and 86% of QDF by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.
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Where these figures came from
DFUS filings on SEC EDGAR ↗DFUS prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Dimensional website ↗QDF filings on SEC EDGAR ↗QDF prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

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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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