ETF comparison
BLV vs VCRB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Core Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
473 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BLV and VCRB would leave roughly 12.1% 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
BLV 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 BLV vs VCRB.
Top shared holdings
473 shared in total| # | Holding | In BLV | In VCRB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.37% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.24% | 0.55% | 0.24% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.74% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.10% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.18% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.17% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.96% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.13% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.15% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.70% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.18% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.23% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
Only in BLV
2,510 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.97%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.73%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.70%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.68%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.68%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.63%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.63%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.60%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.57%
Only in VCRB
2,941 total- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 2.33%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.02%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.97%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.75%
- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.68%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.65%
- Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau 0.60%
- Fannie Mae REMICS 0.59%
- OBX 2026-INV2 Trust 0.57%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.56%
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- BLV vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 3.8%
- BLV vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 1.2%
- BLV vs BIV · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.3%
More comparisons with VCRB
- 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%
- VCRB vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 7.7%
- VCRB vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 7.1%
- VCRB vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 6.6%
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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