DFLV vs YALL

DFLVADimensional US Large Cap Value ETF

YALLDTruth Social God Bless America ETF

In short

DFLV Dimensional's value playbook in an ETF wrapper: large-cap value that also screens for profitability, spread across roughly 300 names, run by research rather than an index. Active by design, index-fund cheap in practice.

YALL An active US stock fund with a point of view: it hunts low price-to-earnings American companies that are adding jobs, then screens out firms it judges to be putting political activism ahead of shareholders. Benchmarked to the S&P 500.

Stated mandate

DFLV The ETF seeks long-term capital appreciation. Its investment approach combines research, portfolio design, portfolio management, and trading, emphasizing long-term expected-return drivers and broad diversification.

YALL The Fund seeks capital appreciation.

Why people hold it

• DFLV Costs 0.21% a year, well under half the 0.55% median for US value funds in its peer group. Active management without the active price tag.
• Cheap alone doesn't get you in. The portfolio screens on value and profitability together, a filter aimed at cut-rate stocks that actually earn money.
• No index to shadow. Dimensional can trade on its own schedule and spreads the money across about 300 large-cap names instead of a handful of bets.
• Sits in the top tier of the US value funds we grade, and it is a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, so getting in and out is rarely the hard part.

• YALL The rulebook is written down, not implied: at least 80% of assets in US-listed equities, picked on low price-to-earnings and a record of creating American jobs, with activism-first companies screened out.sofi.com
• A stock picker, not an index clone. The manager ranges across market caps on its own screen, and the fund measures itself against the S&P 500 Total Return Index, so the yardstick is the plain vanilla market.
• Live since 2022, so the screen has a multi-year public record rather than a back-test. The stated goal is straightforward capital appreciation, with no options overlay or leverage bolted on.

Worth knowing

• DFLV Not the cheapest seat in the room: AVLV and SEIV run 0.15%, WTV 0.12%. You're paying a bit more for Dimensional's process.
• Being benchmark-free cuts both ways. With no index to measure against, there is no tracking-error scoreboard, and outcomes ride on the manager's judgment.
• Launched in December 2022, so the ETF's own record is short, and a value tilt behaves differently from the broad market. It pays quarterly.

• YALL At 0.65% a year you pay up for the screen. Index-built value peers like AVLV (0.15%) and WTV (0.12%) do the cheap-stock part for a fraction of that, and the cohort's typical fee sits lower.
• The activism screen rests on the sub-adviser's assessment rather than a published formula, so what gets excluded can move with the manager's read of a company.sofi.com
• Thinly traded and modest in size, so spreads can run wider than the category's giants. Payouts are infrequent (annual or semiannual), which leaves most of the work to price return.

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