DFAU vs MIGO: Grades, Fees and Holdings Compared

Dimensional US Core Equity Market ETF

DFAUANYSE Arca

MIG Core ETF

MIGOBNYSE Arca

Overlap

18.5%by weight

Expense ratio

DFAU −0.33pt a year

DFAU0.12%MIGO0.45%

Avg volume · 30D

DFAU 41.8×the volume

DFAU555KMIGO13.3K

DFAU vs MIGO Performance

Jul 31, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026

+0.9%DFAU−3.7%MIGO

Expense ratio: DFAU 0.12%, better; MIGO 0.45%
Fund size: DFAU $12.8B; MIGO $731M
1Y total return: DFAU +12.9%; MIGO No data
Yield (12M): DFAU 0.91%; MIGO No data
Holdings: DFAU 2163; MIGO 50
Avg volume (30D): DFAU 555K sh, better; MIGO 13.3K sh
NAV per share: DFAU $52.07; MIGO $28.19
52W range

ETF.net Grade

Pillar letters and Scores for DFAU, MIGO, with each pillar’s weight
Pillar	DFAU	MIGO
Cost30% weight	A97Higher	A71
Mission25% weight	A83	Not scored
Risk15% weight	B65Higher	D37
Tradability15% weight	A87Higher	B67
Holdings10% weight	A84Higher	C46
Durability5% weight	A91Higher	B60

Rank among US Active Equity funds

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Same Category. DFAU and MIGO are both graded against the same 121 US Active Equity funds, so their Grades compare head to head.

US Active Equity⁠

Category · 121 funds

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DFAU ranks 2nd and MIGO 44th of 121 funds in the US Active Equity Category.

Rank 1AAVLCAvantis U.S. Large Cap Equity ETFScore 87
Rank 2ADFAUDimensional US Core Equity Market ETFScore 86
Rank 3ADFACDimensional US Core Equity 2 ETFScore 85
Rank 44BJHDGJohn Hancock Hedged Equity ETFScore 59
Rank 44BMIGOMIG Core ETFScore 59
Rank 44BXCHGAb US Equity ETFScore 59

Our read on each fund

ETF.net Research

DFAUADimensional US Core Equity Market ETF

MIGOBMIG Core ETF

In short

DFAU Active management priced like an index fund. Dimensional spreads across roughly 2,400 US stocks, then tilts the weights toward value, profitability and momentum instead of simply mirroring the Russell 3000.

MIGO No data

Stated mandate

DFAU Seeks long-term capital appreciation. It uses an integrated research, portfolio-design, management, and trading process to build a broadly diversified portfolio of U.S. companies while balancing long-term return drivers, risk, shorter-term considerations, and trading costs.

MIGO No data

Why people hold it

DFAU Charges 0.12% a year, well under the 0.65% median for active US equity funds and the cheapest of the top-graded names in its group (AVLC, DFAC, FELC).
Holds roughly 2,400 US companies, so no single name steers the fund. Whole-market coverage, not a concentrated bet.
Active without the stock-picking drama: it leans weights toward value, profitability and momentum, using the Russell 3000 as its reference point rather than a rigid rulebook.
A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, and one of the strongest overall implementations in its active US equity peer group.

MIGO No data

Worth knowing

DFAU Those tilts cut both ways: results can drift from a plain Russell 3000 fund for long stretches, in either direction.
No published index behind it. The trade-off for flexibility is that you're buying Dimensional's process, not a public set of rules you can check line by line.
Distributions land quarterly, not monthly, and the mandate is long-term capital appreciation rather than income.

MIGO No data

Full DFAU profile⁠

Full MIGO profile⁠

DFAU vs MIGO Holdings

How DFAU and MIGO differ

Overlap by weight

18.5%

Shared holdings make up 50.6% of MIGO and 26.8% of DFAU.

Level by level

Holdings36 in both18.5%
Countryby domicile94.1%
Asset classEquity100%

Sector

No Sector split for MIGO.

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Country weights in DFAU and MIGO, widest gap first
Country	More in DFAUMore in MIGO	DFAU	MIGO
United States	DFAU +5.7 points	99.3%	93.6%
Taiwan	MIGO +3.4 points	0.0%	3.4%
Canada	MIGO +1.2 points	0.0%	1.2%
Other countries (19)	MIGO +1.0 points	0.7%	1.7%

Concentration

Weight in the 10 largest Holdings

DFAU33.2%
MIGO52.3%

Securities held

DFAU2,162
MIGO49

Asset class

DFAU: Equity
MIGO: Equity

Holdings

Only in DFAU2,126
In both36
Only in MIGO13

Only in DFAU

2,126 securities, 73.1% of DFAU by weight

Apple Inc.7.13%
Alphabet Inc - Class A2.14%
Tesla Inc1.37%
JPMorgan Chase & Co1.21%
Berkshire Hathaway Cl-B1.17%
Exxonmobil Holdings Corp1.11%
Visa Inc0.98%
Advanced Micro Devices0.92%
Johnson & Johnson0.78%
Walmart Inc.0.71%
Mastercard Inc - A0.70%
AbbVie Inc.0.62%
Chevron Corp.0.58%
Merck & Company Inc0.55%
Procter & Gamble Co/The0.53%
Cisco Systems Inc.0.53%
Costco Wholesale Corp.0.50%
Coca Cola Co.0.47%
Home Depot Inc0.46%
UnitedHealth Group Inc.0.41%
Bank of America Corp0.39%
Philip Morris Intl0.38%
Palantir Technologies Inc0.38%
General Electric Company0.37%
Amgen Inc0.37%
International Business Ma0.36%
Oracle Corp.0.36%
Texas Instruments Inc.0.35%
Intel Corp0.35%
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.0.35%
Caterpillar Inc.0.34%
Wells Fargo & Co.0.34%
Rtx Corp0.32%
Verizon Communications0.31%
New Linde PLC0.31%
Gilead Sciences Inc0.31%
Conocophillips0.30%
Morgan Stanley0.29%
Thermo Fisher Scientific.0.27%
Qualcomm Inc.0.27%
American Express Co.0.26%
Pepsico Inc.0.26%
Union Pac Corp.0.26%
Netflix.com Inc.0.25%
Salesforce Inc0.25%
Citigroup Inc.0.24%
Sandisk Corp/De0.24%
Analog Devices Inc.0.24%
Walt Disney Co/The0.22%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.0.21%

Only in MIGO

13 securities, 49.4% of MIGO by weight

Vanguard S&P 500 Etf20.49%
Invesco Qqq Trust Series 14.92%
Ss Spdr Nyse Tech Etf4.19%
Vaneck Semiconductor Etf3.74%
Ishares Expanded3.09%
Taiwan Semiconductor-Sp Adr2.80%
Amplify Cybersecurity Etf2.72%
Celsius Holdings Inc2.55%
Inv Phlx Semi1.57%
First Tr Ncesgii1.23%
Shopify Inc0.96%
Gmr Solutions Inc-A0.88%
Jersey Mike's Su0.23%

Weight gaps

All 36 Holdings in both funds, largest gap first.

Holding weights in DFAU and MIGO, widest gap first
Holding	More in DFAUMore in MIGO	DFAU	MIGO
NVIDIA CorpNVDA	DFAU +5.99 points	6.61%	0.62%
Dexcom IncDXCM	MIGO +2.92 points	0.05%	2.97%
Sotera Health CoSHC	MIGO +2.44 points	0.01%	2.45%
Credit Acceptance CorpCACC	MIGO +1.98 points	0.01%	1.99%
Advanced Drainage SystemsWMS	MIGO +1.94 points	0.02%	1.96%
Microsoft CorpMSFT	DFAU +1.88 points	5.62%	3.74%
Broadcom IncAVGO	MIGO +1.62 points	1.96%	3.58%
Knife River CorpKNF	MIGO +1.63 points	<0.01%	1.63%
Micron Technology Inc.MU	MIGO +1.13 points	1.56%	2.69%
Seagate Technology HoldSTX	MIGO +1.00 points	0.20%	1.20%
Ares Management CorpARES	MIGO +0.99 points	0.03%	1.02%
Everpure IncP	MIGO +0.99 points	0.05%	1.04%
Meta Platforms IncMETA	MIGO +0.95 points	1.78%	2.73%
Blackstone IncBX	MIGO +0.95 points	0.08%	1.03%
Zscaler IncZS	MIGO +0.94 points	0.02%	0.96%
Rubrik IncRBRK	MIGO +0.93 points	0.02%	0.95%
Western DigitalWDC	MIGO +0.91 points	0.22%	1.13%
Lam Research CorpLRCX	MIGO +0.90 points	0.34%	1.24%
Td Synnex CorpSNX	MIGO +0.85 points	0.04%	0.89%
Mongodb IncMDB	MIGO +0.83 points	0.04%	0.87%
Datadog IncDDOG	MIGO +0.82 points	0.07%	0.89%
Palo Alto Networks IncPANW	MIGO +0.79 points	0.20%	0.99%
Coherent CorpCOHR	MIGO +0.79 points	0.06%	0.85%
Applied Materials Inc.AMAT	MIGO +0.73 points	0.36%	1.09%
Eli Lilly and CompanyLLY	MIGO +0.59 points	1.52%	2.11%
Snowflake IncSNOW	MIGO +0.56 points	0.09%	0.65%
Amphenol Corp Class AAPH	MIGO +0.56 points	0.24%	0.80%
Alphabet IncGOOG	MIGO +0.56 points	1.76%	2.32%
Ciena CorpCIEN	MIGO +0.55 points	0.06%	0.61%
Reddit IncRDDT	MIGO +0.45 points	0.01%	0.46%
Ecolab IncECL	MIGO +0.45 points	0.15%	0.60%
Amazon.com Inc.AMZN	DFAU +0.43 points	3.15%	2.72%
Kla CorpKLAC	MIGO +0.43 points	0.27%	0.70%
Spotify Technology SASPOT	MIGO +0.35 points	0.07%	0.42%
Regal Rexnord CorpRRX	MIGO +0.35 points	0.02%	0.37%
Jabil IncJBL	MIGO +0.31 points	0.06%	0.37%

All 2,381 DFAU holdings⁠All 49 MIGO holdings⁠

How we measure overlap

Each holding counts at its smaller weight in the two funds, summed over the full Holdings. Sector, country and asset class use the same rule on each fund’s split. Cash, FX and derivative lines stay out of the counts. Two bond funds get no overlap figure.

DFAU vs MIGO Cost

Overpaying MIGO vs DFAU

$6,521

On $10,000 over 30 years. 7% growth a year before fees, expense ratio only.

DFAU 0.12%
$2,520
MIGO 0.45%
$9,041

Amount$10,000

Years30 years

Cost over time

DFAU 0.12%
MIGO 0.45%
Overpaying

Year by year

Year	DFAU	MIGO	Overpaying
10	$220	$812	$592
20	$859	$3,128	$2,269
30	$2,520	$9,041	$6,521

Expense ratio

0.12%DFAU, cheaper
0.45%MIGO

DFAU0.12%MIGO0.45%

0.00%2.89%

Middle half of US Active Equity funds
Median 0.68%

DFAU 4th cheapest of 121 funds

MIGO 34th cheapest of 121 funds

DFAU vs MIGO Dividends

Last 12 months to Nov 2, 2026

Yield (12M): DFAU 0.91%; MIGO No data
Payout (12M): DFAU $0.47; MIGO None
Last payment: DFAU $0.12; MIGO No data
Ex-dividend: DFAU Sep 22, 2026; MIGO No data
Paid on: DFAU Sep 24, 2026; MIGO No data
Frequency: DFAU Quarterly; MIGO No data

Distribution history

Per share, 2020 to 2026, same scale for both

DFAUQuarterly · 24 paymentsAll DFAU payments⁠

MIGOAll MIGO payments⁠

No distribution history available.

DFAU vs MIGO Risk

Fall from peak · 5 years

This chart needs five years of history for both funds.

Risk facts

VolatilityStd dev, 3 years: DFAU 12.4%MIGO No data
Return per unit of riskSharpe ratio, 3 years: DFAU 1.38MIGO No data
Worst fallMax drawdown, 5 years: DFAU −23.6%MIGO No data
Market sensitivityBeta, 5 years: DFAU 1.01MIGO 1.68; Market = 1

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