ETF comparison
AGG vs DFCF
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF
Holdings overlap
1,327 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AGG and DFCF would leave roughly 15.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
AGG is 14 bps cheaper than DFCF. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/yr more in fees for DFCF.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with AGG vs DFCF.
Top shared holdings
1,327 shared in total| # | Holding | In AGG | In DFCF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.40% | 0.65% | 0.40% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.35% | 0.65% | 0.35% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.33% | 0.75% | 0.33% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 0.33% | 0.61% | 0.33% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.32% | 0.72% | 0.32% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.31% | 0.87% | 0.31% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.31% | 0.39% | 0.31% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.29% | 0.91% | 0.29% |
| 9 | United States Treasury | 0.29% | 0.89% | 0.29% |
| 10 | United States Treasury | 0.27% | 0.53% | 0.27% |
| 11 | United States Treasury | 0.27% | 0.76% | 0.27% |
| 12 | United States Treasury | 0.39% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
Only in AGG
11,939 total- United States Treasury 0.42%
- United States Treasury 0.41%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.38%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.35%
- United States Treasury 0.33%
- United States Treasury 0.31%
- United States Treasury 0.31%
Only in DFCF
443 total- Federal National Mortgage Association 6.19%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 5.34%
- United States of America 4.70%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 4.10%
- United States of America 3.07%
- Government National Mortgage Association 2 3.00%
- United States of America 2.94%
- United States of America 2.93%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 2.85%
- United States of America 2.25%
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More comparisons with DFCF
- DFCF vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 15.2%
- DFCF vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 14.7%
- DFCF vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 9.5%
- DFCF vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 9.1%
- DFCF vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 9.0%
- DFCF vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 7.7%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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