ETF comparison
AGG vs VCRB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF · Vanguard Core Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
1,457 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AGG and VCRB would leave roughly 15.0% 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 7 bps cheaper than VCRB. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for VCRB.
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 VCRB.
Top shared holdings
1,457 shared in total| # | Holding | In AGG | In VCRB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.42% | 0.52% | 0.42% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.38% | 0.51% | 0.38% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.37% | 0.41% | 0.37% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 0.33% | 0.43% | 0.33% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.24% | 0.54% | 0.24% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.21% | 1.02% | 0.21% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.19% | 0.27% | 0.19% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.21% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 9 | United States Treasury | 0.18% | 0.65% | 0.18% |
| 10 | United States Treasury | 0.18% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 11 | United States Treasury | 0.21% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 12 | United States Treasury | 0.21% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
Only in AGG
11,809 total- 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 0.35%
- United States Treasury 0.35%
- United States Treasury 0.33%
Only in VCRB
1,957 total- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 2.33%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.97%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.75%
- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.68%
- Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau 0.60%
- Fannie Mae REMICS 0.59%
- OBX 2026-INV2 Trust 0.57%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.56%
- Finland Government International Bond 0.54%
- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.54%
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More comparisons with AGG
- AGG vs SPTS · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Treasury ETF 15.0%
- AGG vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 14.6%
- AGG vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF 14.6%
- AGG vs LQD · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 12.8%
- AGG vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 9.9%
- AGG vs SPTL · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Treasury ETF 9.3%
More comparisons with VCRB
- VCRB vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 14.6%
- VCRB vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 13.1%
- VCRB vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 12.1%
- VCRB vs GVI · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 10.4%
- VCRB vs BIV · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 10.0%
- VCRB vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 8.3%
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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