DFUS vs VOTE: Differences, Returns & Fees
DFUS and VOTE hold 91% of their weight in the same names. Net assets on Jul 31, 2026: $20.9bn for Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF and $1.1bn for TCW Transform 500 ETF.
VOTE costs 0.04 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 0.1 points; DFUS is 19.0 times larger.
| DFUS | VOTE | |
|---|---|---|
| Expense ratio | 0.09% | 0.05% |
| Net assets, as of Jul 31, 2026 | $20.9bn | $1.1bn |
| Total return, 1 year | +17.3% | +17.4% |
| What it tracks | No index, actively managed | Morningstar US Large Cap Select Index? |
| Holdings in common | 91% | |
| Top ten holdings, share of the fund | 34.6% | 37.1% |
Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jul 31, 2026.
What they hold in common
By the books each fund has filed, DFUS and VOTE hold 91% 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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91% in common
On the same fields
DFUS and VOTE 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 VOTE
VOTE tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +17.4% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.05% a year. By its holdings filed for Jul 31, 2026, 96% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 506 positions, with the top ten at 37.1%.
Questions people ask
- Which returned more over the last year, DFUS or VOTE?
- In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, DFUS returned +17.3% and VOTE +17.4%.
- Which is cheaper, DFUS or VOTE?
- VOTE is cheaper, by 0.04 percentage points a year. That is about $4 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
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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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