ETF comparison
AGG vs VTC
US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
5,302 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AGG and VTC would leave roughly 16.5% 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 VTC.
Top shared holdings
5,302 shared in total| # | Holding | In AGG | In VTC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.05% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 2 | ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV | 0.03% | 0.10% | 0.03% |
| 3 | CVS HEALTH CORP | 0.02% | 0.08% | 0.02% |
| 4 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.02% | 0.09% | 0.02% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.11% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 6 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.02% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 7 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.02% | 0.05% | 0.02% |
| 8 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.02% | 0.07% | 0.02% |
| 9 | PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER | 0.02% | 0.03% | 0.02% |
| 10 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.02% | 0.13% | 0.02% |
| 11 | ABBVIE INC | 0.02% | 0.09% | 0.02% |
| 12 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.02% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in AGG
7,964 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 VTC
37 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.32%
- Citigroup Inc 0.05%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.05%
- Huntington National Bank/The 0.04%
- BlackRock Funding Inc/DE 0.04%
- HPS Corporate Lending Fund 0.03%
- Augusta SpinCo Corp 0.03%
- Delta Air Lines Inc / SkyMiles IP Ltd 0.03%
- NYU Langone Hospitals 0.03%
- First Horizon Corp 0.02%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with AGG
- AGG vs IEI · iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF 15.7%
- AGG vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 15.6%
- AGG vs SCHO · Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 15.4%
- AGG vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 15.3%
- AGG vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 15.2%
- AGG vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 15.0%
More comparisons with VTC
- VTC vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 12.9%
- VTC vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.3%
- VTC vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTC vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTC vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTC vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 0.0%
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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