AVLC vs TEXX

AVLCAAvantis U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF

TEXXDHorizon Kinetics Texas ETF

In short

AVLC Active management with index-fund manners: roughly 900 U.S. large caps, with the dial turned toward cheaper, more profitable companies. Avantis charges 0.15% a year to do it.

TEXX Texas, hand-picked. Horizon Kinetics runs its state fund actively and non-diversified, leaning on its own value and real-asset research across oil, gas and land instead of screening for a headquarters address.

Stated mandate

AVLC The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation. It invests broadly in U.S. large-capitalization companies while using active decisions to overweight lower valuations and higher profitability.

TEXX The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.

Why people hold it

• AVLC 0.15% a year against a 0.65% median for active U.S. equity funds. That is passive-style pricing on an actively run book.
• Holds about 900 names against the Russell 1000, so the value and profitability tilts sit on top of broad market exposure instead of a concentrated bet.avantisinvestors.com
• One of the stronger builds in the active U.S. equity group, priced in the same neighborhood as the Dimensional core funds (DFAU, DFAC) it competes with.
• A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades steadily, so spreads and liquidity are rarely the sticking point. Distributions are paid quarterly.

• TEXX Stock-picked, not screened: at least 80% of net assets go to Texas companies chosen by Horizon Kinetics, with position sizes set by conviction rather than index weights.horizonkinetics.comyahoo.com
• A house style you can read in advance: the seventh active ETF Horizon Kinetics has launched since 2021, from a shop that describes its process as long-term, fundamentals-based and value-oriented.yahoo.com
• The portfolio's center of gravity is oil and gas exploration and production, so it tracks the Permian engine more closely than a broad slice of the Texas economy.

Worth knowing

• AVLC Launched in 2023. The tilt philosophy is well worn at Avantis, but this fund's own live record is still short.
• Active, not index-tracking. The Russell 1000 is a reference point, not a leash, so holdings and weights can drift from it.
• Leaning toward cheaper, higher-profitability companies means stretches where it moves differently from the plain cap-weighted market, in either direction.avantisinvestors.com

• TEXX Costs 0.85% a year against a 0.65% median for active US equity ETFs in its peer group. The stock picking carries that gap.
• Non-diversified and single-state, with an energy lean, so moves can run sharper in both directions than a broad US equity fund.yahoo.comusnews.com
• Launched in 2026: short track record, small asset base, light trading that can widen bid-ask spreads, and a growth-of-capital mandate rather than an income one.

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