ETF comparison
AGG vs VCIT
US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,284 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AGG and VCIT would leave roughly 6.5% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 VCIT.
Top shared holdings
2,284 shared in total| # | Holding | In AGG | In VCIT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.06% | 0.18% | 0.06% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.05% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 3 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.02% | 0.14% | 0.02% |
| 4 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.02% | 0.20% | 0.02% |
| 5 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.02% | 0.30% | 0.02% |
| 6 | ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV | 0.02% | 0.27% | 0.02% |
| 7 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.02% | 0.18% | 0.02% |
| 8 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.02% | 0.18% | 0.02% |
| 9 | PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER | 0.02% | 0.27% | 0.02% |
| 10 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | 0.02% | 0.18% | 0.02% |
| 11 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.02% | 0.27% | 0.02% |
| 12 | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.02% | 0.17% | 0.02% |
Only in AGG
10,982 total- United States Treasury 0.42%
- United States Treasury 0.41%
- United States Treasury 0.41%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.38%
Only in VCIT
18 total- BlackRock Funding Inc/DE 0.07%
- BlackRock Funding Inc/DE 0.06%
- BlackRock Funding Inc 0.04%
- Electronic Arts Inc 0.03%
- Leidos Inc 0.03%
- Vale Overseas Ltd 0.03%
- Consolidated Edison Co of New York Inc 0.02%
- BlackRock Funding Inc 0.02%
- Spire Inc 0.02%
- Leidos Inc 0.02%
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- AGG vs SPMB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond ETF 5.5%
- AGG vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 5.2%
- AGG vs IEF · iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF 5.2%
- AGG vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 5.1%
- AGG vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 5.0%
- AGG vs SPSB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF 4.7%
More comparisons with VCIT
- VCIT vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 1.0%
- VCIT vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.4%
- VCIT vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.4%
- VCIT vs VCLT · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.2%
- VCIT vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.2%
- VCIT vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.1%
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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