ETF comparison
AGG vs VUSB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
457 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AGG and VUSB would leave roughly 2.0% 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 VUSB. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for VUSB.
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 VUSB.
Top shared holdings
457 shared in total| # | Holding | In AGG | In VUSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.17% | 0.67% | 0.17% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.15% | 0.52% | 0.15% |
| 3 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.02% | 0.19% | 0.02% |
| 4 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.02% | 0.35% | 0.02% |
| 5 | AMGEN INC | 0.01% | 0.16% | 0.01% |
| 6 | CIGNA GROUP/THE | 0.01% | 0.07% | 0.01% |
| 7 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.01% | 0.22% | 0.01% |
| 8 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.01% | 0.08% | 0.01% |
| 9 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.01% | 0.14% | 0.01% |
| 10 | SALESFORCE INC | 0.01% | 0.19% | 0.01% |
| 11 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.01% | 0.28% | 0.01% |
| 12 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 0.01% | 0.14% | 0.01% |
Only in AGG
12,809 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 VUSB
824 total- United States Treasury Bill 4.19%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 0.49%
- Westlake Flooring Master Trust 0.44%
- DLLAD 2024-1 LLC 0.43%
- UBS Group AG 0.41%
- Bank of Montreal 0.40%
- Toyota Motor Credit Corp 0.37%
- RKTL 2026-2 0.37%
- PFS Financing Corp 0.36%
- NTT Finance Corp 0.35%
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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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