Dimensional US Marketwide Value ETF

Dimensional US Marketwide Value ETF (DFUV) is an actively managed fund. As of July 31, 2026, it held about 1,334 US value stocks of all sizes, picked by Dimensional rather than copied from an index. It leans toward cheaper, more profitable and smaller companies, and it is run to keep capital gains taxes low. It costs 0.21% a year, more than index-based value funds such as Vanguard Value ETF at 0.04%.

• Over the year to Nov 2, 2026, DFUV returned +28.9%, 2nd of 9 among similar funds.
• Its worst full calendar year was 2024 (+11.8%); its best was 2025 (+15.8%).
• The deepest fall in its price history was 17.6% (Nov 25, 2024 to Apr 8, 2025), recovered by Aug 22, 2025.

As of Jul 31, 2026, the fund held 1,334 securities; the ten largest made up 25.87% of assets.

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• Over the three months to Jul 31, 2026, investors withdrew a net $32.2M (creations minus redemptions, per the N-PORT report).
• Monthly total returns reported for that quarter: +3.52%, +2.95%, +0.88%.

DFUV does not track an index. Dimensional's managers choose from US companies of every size. They look for "value" stocks, meaning shares with a low price compared with book value (a company's net worth on its balance sheet). They may also look at price compared with cash flow or earnings. Holdings are weighted mostly by market capitalization (share price times shares outstanding), so bigger companies get bigger positions. The fund may also lean further toward smaller companies, cheaper stocks and highly profitable ones. Under normal conditions, at least 80% of net assets is in US companies. As of July 31, 2026, the largest holdings were JPMorgan Chase (4.5%), Amazon (3.5%), ExxonMobil (3.2%) and Johnson & Johnson (2.9%). The top 10 made up about 26% of assets.

The managers also use shorter-term signals. They may add to, trim or skip a stock based on price momentum, short-term price reversals, or how fast a company is growing its assets. There is no fixed rebalancing date. Instead, they trade flexibly to keep trading costs down. The prospectus reports turnover of 5%.

The fund is tax-managed. It tries to put off realizing capital gains, sells losing stocks to offset gains, and aims to keep any realized gains long-term. It may use futures to stay fully invested when money flows in or out. It also lends out securities for extra income, which carries a small risk that a borrower fails to return them.

• DFUV charges 0.21% a year, versus an average of 0.12% for the similar funds below (7th of 9, cheapest first).
• Of that, 0.2% is the management fee; the rest covers other fund expenses.
• Using the prospectus's standard example, $10,000 invested would cost about $22 in the first year and $268 over 10 years (assuming a 5% annual return).

With about 1,334 US stocks of all sizes, low turnover and a tax-managed approach, it could serve as the value part of a core US stock allocation.

DFUV could add a broad tilt toward cheaper US stocks alongside growth-heavy index funds. Its prospectus record goes back before the ETF's May 2022 launch. That record shows a worst quarter of -30.33% in early 2020 and calendar-year losses of 10.06% in 2018 and 7.83% in 2022. It does not cover 2008. Since launch, its deepest drop was 17.6%, from November 2024 to April 2025, and it recovered in about 4.5 months. Anyone drawing money from it in those stretches would have been selling shares at lower prices. The yield was 1.29% as of October 29, 2026, paid quarterly, so it is not a large source of income. It costs 0.21% a year. In the SEC's standard example, that comes to $268 over 10 years on $10,000. Past results don't predict future ones, and a retirement plan should look at the whole portfolio, not one fund.

Matched by holdings overlap from the latest N-PORT reports.