ETF comparison
BIV vs JCPB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
218 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BIV and JCPB would leave roughly 4.5% 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
BIV is 34 bps cheaper than JCPB. On a $100,000 position that's about $340/yr more in fees for JCPB.
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 BIV vs JCPB.
Top shared holdings
218 shared in total| # | Holding | In BIV | In JCPB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.08% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.08% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 3 | Bank of America Corp | 0.12% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 4 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.08% | 0.12% | 0.08% |
| 5 | Amazon.com Inc | 0.13% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 6 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.07% | 0.19% | 0.07% |
| 7 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.07% | 0.08% | 0.07% |
| 8 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.06% | 0.08% | 0.06% |
| 9 | Honeywell Aerospace Inc | 0.06% | 0.17% | 0.06% |
| 10 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.08% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 11 | Meta Platforms Inc | 0.11% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.08% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
Only in BIV
2,137 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.14%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.14%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.13%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.02%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.94%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.84%
Only in JCPB
2,407 total- United States of America 3.17%
- FNMA/FHLMC 1.78%
- FNMA/FHLMC 1.36%
- FNMA/FHLMC 1.24%
- United States of America 1.15%
- United States of America 0.88%
- United States of America 0.73%
- United States of America 0.65%
- United States of America 0.58%
- United States of America 0.55%
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More comparisons with BIV
- BIV vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 2.8%
- BIV vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 1.7%
- BIV vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.4%
- BIV vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.3%
- BIV vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 0.2%
- BIV vs MINT · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.1%
More comparisons with JCPB
- JCPB vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 4.4%
- JCPB vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 4.3%
- JCPB vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 3.9%
- JCPB vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 3.7%
- JCPB vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 3.3%
- JCPB vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 3.1%
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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