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DFAI holdings

DFAI reports 3,781 holdings and behaves like 389.8 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 22 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

1.2% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 373.3

The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.

3,781 Positions reported
389.8 Effective holdings
9.7× Concentration multiple
9.29% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 98.75% at a quoted market price (level 1), 28 issuer countries, 1.19% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

DFAI's largest investment is ASML Holding NV at 1.42% of net assets. Shell PLC and HSBC Holdings PLC follow; the three together are 3.5%. Ten companies are 9.29% of the fund; the other 3,771 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, DFAI behaves like 389.8 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 9.2 times the median. Across 22 quarterly filings DFAI has held roughly steady since 2021-01-31 (402.1 then, 411.1 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 77 positions were added and 157 dropped; 8.5% of the weight moved. Japan is the largest country at 23.11% of the portfolio, across 28 countries in the filing.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2021

22

Between 2021-01-31 and 2026-04-30, DFAI went from behaving like 402.1 equally weighted positions to 411.1 — 2% more, while its top ten went from 9.02% to 8.97% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 3,834 411.1 8.97% 1.43%
2026-01-31 3,928 409.5 9.11% 1.51%
2025-10-31 3,931 422 8.83% 1.22%
2025-07-31 3,873 426 8.74% 1.04%
2025-04-30 3,837 411.7 9.12% 1.13%
2025-01-31 3,852 389.2 9.87% 1.1%
2024-10-31 3,871 388.1 10.03% 1.46%
2024-07-31 3,730 359.7 11.04% 1.66%
Earlier filings (14 more, back to 2021-01-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 3,710 351.5 11.46% 1.69%
2024-01-31 3,649 363.2 11.22% 1.49%
2023-10-31 3,586 362.8 11.22% 1.5%
2023-07-31 3,613 390.2 10.41% 1.47%
2023-04-30 3,574 378 10.78% 1.58%
2023-01-31 3,492 391.5 10.1% 1.47%
2022-10-31 3,325 360.8 10.56% 1.58%
2022-07-31 3,258 365.5 10.11% 1.64%
2022-04-30 3,149 357.9 10% 1.73%
2022-01-31 3,140 387.5 9.53% 1.58%
2021-10-31 3,110 412.5 9.49% 1.59%
2021-07-31 3,007 396.8 9.64% 1.55%
2021-04-30 2,957 415.5 8.85% 1.5%
2021-01-31 2,643 402.1 9.02% 1.53%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

As filed, collateral included

1.17% collateral

DFAI's filing lists 3,783 positions including 1.17% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 373.3 effective holdings with a top ten of 9.79%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 389.8 with a top ten of 9.29%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 3,781 positions in DFAI's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: listed with the point-in-time files, available on request.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1ASML Holding N.V.1.43%1.4%
2SHELL PLC1.05%2.5%
3HSBC HOLDINGS PLC1.05%3.5%
4Roche Holding AG0.98%4.5%
5ASTRAZENECA PLC0.95%5.5%
6ROYAL BANK OF CANADA0.92%6.4%
7Nestle S.A.0.91%7.3%
8Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.0.67%8.0%
9TOTALENERGIES SE0.65%8.6%
10TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION0.64%9.2%
11Novartis AG0.64%9.9%
12THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK0.61%10.5%
13BP P.L.C.0.56%11.1%
14BHP GROUP LIMITED0.56%11.6%
15Siemens Aktiengesellschaft0.55%12.2%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of DFAI's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
Japan 22.75%
Canada 12.63%
United Kingdom 11.71%
Switzerland 7.87%
Germany 7.53%
France 7.17%
Australia 5.99%
Netherlands° 4.83%

Returns the fund reported

2020-11 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of DFAI's own filings, 66 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

29.8%Last twelve months filed
85%Whole series, compounded
10.6%Best month
-9.5%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.28 percentage points over 65 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: DFAI.json · all funds.

Who borrows DFAI's shares

2026-07-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $384m was out to 18 borrowers. The largest, STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY, held 19% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY $73m 19.0%
BofA Securities, Inc. $59m 15.5%
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC $46m 12.1%
BARCLAYS BANK PLC $46m 12.1%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $37m 9.6%

The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter DFAI has filed, with each borrower: DFAI.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

3,780 positions became 3,700: 77 added (1.4% of the fund at the later date), 157 dropped (1.7% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 8.5%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of DFAI compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Fujikura Ltd.0.31%0.51% SAP SE0.58%0.43%
BP P.L.C.0.39%0.56% NOVO NORDISK A/S0.59%0.44%
Siemens Energy AG0.32%0.47% Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft0.34%0.24%
SHELL PLC0.91%1.05% SHOPIFY INC.0.39%0.30%
TOTALENERGIES SE0.52%0.65% LVMH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON SE0.57%0.49%
THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK0.48%0.61% Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.0.35%0.27%

New: Roche Holding AG (0.98%), RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC (0.18%), SUNBELT RENTALS HOLDINGS, INC. (0.16%), COEUR MINING, INC. (0.03%), Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Spruengli AG (0.01%), OVINTIV INC. (0.01%). Gone: Roche Holding AG (1.10%), RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC (0.24%), ASHTEAD GROUP PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY (0.14%), NEW GOLD INC. (0.03%), ROYAL GOLD, INC. (0.02%), NUVISTA ENERGY LTD. (0.01%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC94.84%
unknown unknown4.00%
short-term investment STIV1.16%

98.8% of DFAI is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Derivative exposure and counterparties

as of 2026-04-30

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $15.87B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

95.56%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0%Futures notional (0)
95.6%Sum, % of net assets

5 option positions filed, 0 of them written. The book as filed:

TypeSideStrikeExpiryUnderlying
CallPurchased02040-03-31as filed, not named
CallPurchased02030-08-02as filed, not named
CallPurchased99.52028-12-06as filed, not named
CallPurchased177.372028-12-06as filed, not named
CallPurchased234.852028-12-06as filed, not named

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

10

Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of DFAI (389.8). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
IJR iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 655 356.1 7.46% 2026-06-30
BBMC JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Mid Cap Equity ETF 463 358.2 6.66% 2026-07-31
DFSI Dimensional International Sustainability Core 1 ETF 2,809 361.8 9.77% 2026-07-31
FSMD Fidelity Small-Mid Multifactor ETF 588 371.9 8.16% 2026-07-31
JHSC John Hancock Multifactor Small Cap ETF 490 377.9 5.38% 2026-06-30
AVDV Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF 1,758 392.8 8.14% 2026-05-31
IWS iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF 723 399.8 5.94% 2026-06-30
DFAT Dimensional U.S. Targeted Value ETF 1,206 403.1 6.79% 2026-07-31
IWO iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF 1,136 409.7 6.06% 2026-06-30
SLY SPDR(R) S & P 600 Small Cap ETF 602 416 5.55% 2023-03-31

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