ETF comparison
BSV vs VCRB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Core Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
395 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BSV and VCRB would leave roughly 6.5% 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
BSV 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 BSV vs VCRB.
Top shared holdings
395 shared in total| # | Holding | In BSV | In VCRB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.62% | 1.02% | 0.62% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.63% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.39% | 0.65% | 0.39% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.32% | 0.34% | 0.32% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.48% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.26% | 0.49% | 0.26% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.13% | 0.35% | 0.13% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.29% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 9 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.08% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.07% | 0.14% | 0.07% |
| 11 | AerCap Ireland Capital DAC / AerCap Global Aviation Trust | 0.06% | 0.09% | 0.06% |
| 12 | Morgan Stanley | 0.05% | 0.06% | 0.05% |
Only in BSV
2,790 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.12%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.89%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.88%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.81%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.80%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.79%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.78%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.77%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.77%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%
Only in VCRB
3,019 total- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 2.33%
- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.68%
- Fannie Mae REMICS 0.59%
- OBX 2026-INV2 Trust 0.57%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.56%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.55%
- Finland Government International Bond 0.54%
- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.54%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.53%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.52%
Related comparisons
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- BSV vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 4.4%
- BSV vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 4.3%
- BSV vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 2.7%
- BSV vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 2.3%
- BSV vs ICSH · iShares Ultra Short Duration Bond Active ETF 1.3%
More comparisons with VCRB
- VCRB vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 5.2%
- VCRB vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 5.2%
- VCRB vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 5.0%
- VCRB vs SPMB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond ETF 4.9%
- VCRB vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 4.6%
- VCRB vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 4.0%
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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