Dimensional - International Core Equity Market ETF
$41.91−0.59 (−1.40%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.18%
- Fund size
- $18.0B
- 1Y return
- +19.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.28%
- Holdings
- 3869
- Volume · 30D
- 1.6M sh
- NAV per share
- $42.21
- 52W range
The ETF.net DFAI Grade
Score 76 of 100 sits in the A band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.AScore 91Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 59Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 48Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 72Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 83Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 70Category rank
Our read on DFAI
ADimensional's take on developed markets outside the US: several thousand stocks, plus deliberate leans toward cheaper and more profitable companies. Index-fund breadth with a research desk setting the weights, priced above the plain vanilla crowd.
The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through an integrated approach combining research, portfolio design, portfolio management, and trading.
Why people hold it
- Holds several thousand developed-market stocks outside the US, so no single name, sector or country steers the fund.
- The tilts are in the mandate, not the marketing: it leans toward cheaper stocks and more profitable companies while still owning the broad market.
- Portfolio construction is one of the stronger builds in its peer group, and the fund is a multi-billion-dollar, actively traded name that pays quarterly.
Worth knowing
- At 0.18% it costs many times what plain cap-weighted rivals like VEA, SPDW and SCHF charge. The tilts are what the extra buys.
- MSCI World ex USA IMI is the yardstick, not a leash. Dimensional builds the portfolio its own way, so it can look and behave differently from that index.
- Launched in late 2020, so its live record is shorter than the index giants', and on the whole package it lands in the lower half of its developed-core cohort.
DFAI Holdings
- Stocks
- 3,869
- 9%
- ASML
Sectors
- Financials24.5%
- Industrials18.5%
- Technology9.8%
- Materials9.1%
- Consumer Discr.8.5%
- Health Care8.4%
- Energy6.4%
- Cons. Staples6.2%
- Communication3.9%
- Utilities3.6%
- Real Estate1.3%
Geography
- Japan24.17%
- Canada12.16%
- United Kingdom10.70%
- Switzerland7.99%
- Germany7.34%
- France6.80%
- Australia5.81%
- Netherlands4.73%
- 20.30%
Developed 98% · Emerging 2%
DFAI Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | DFAI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.1% |
| 1 month | −2.0% |
| 3 months | +2.2% |
| 1 year | +19.4% |
| 3 years | +20.0% |
| 5 years | +10.3% |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | DFAI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.1% | |
| 2025 | +34.0% | |
| 2024 | +4.7% | |
| 2023 | +17.6% | |
| 2022 | −12.9% | |
| 2021 | +13.9% | |
| 2020 | +5.5% |
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DFAI Dividends
- 2.28%
- $0.97
- $0.47 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.47 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.44 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.23 |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Sep 19, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Jun 18, 2024 | Jun 20, 2024 | $0.38 |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Mar 22, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.17 |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Sep 22, 2023 | $0.14 |
DFAI Risk
- 11.9%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.20
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −27.4%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.91
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DFAI Cost
- The middle half of International Multifactor funds
- Median 0.35%
2 of the 30 International Multifactor funds charge less.