ETF comparison
CGCP vs DFCF
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF
Holdings overlap
60 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGCP and DFCF would leave roughly 5.2% 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
DFCF is 17 bps cheaper than CGCP. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for CGCP.
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 CGCP vs DFCF.
Top shared holdings
60 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGCP | In DFCF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UMBS, TBA | 1.40% | 6.19% | 1.40% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 1.58% | 1.06% | 1.06% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.70% | 0.50% | 0.50% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 3.27% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 5 | UMBS, TBA | 0.37% | 4.10% | 0.37% |
| 6 | UMBS, TBA | 0.23% | 1.65% | 0.23% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.16% | 0.28% | 0.16% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.17% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 9 | CHUBB INA HOLDINGS LLC | 0.11% | 0.17% | 0.11% |
| 10 | DOW CHEMICAL CO/THE | 0.09% | 0.19% | 0.09% |
| 11 | UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC | 0.06% | 0.08% | 0.06% |
| 12 | PHILIP MORRIS INTL INC | 0.18% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
Only in CGCP
1,399 total- United States Treasury 4.35%
- UMBS, TBA 2.01%
- United States Treasury 1.73%
- United States Treasury 1.63%
- United States Treasury 1.59%
- United States Treasury 1.48%
- Fannie Mae 1.45%
- UMBS, TBA 1.27%
- United States Treasury 1.19%
- Freddie Mac 1.04%
Only in DFCF
1,710 total- Federal National Mortgage Association 5.34%
- United States of America 4.70%
- United States of America 3.07%
- Government National Mortgage Association 2 3.00%
- United States of America 2.94%
- United States of America 2.93%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 2.85%
- United States of America 2.25%
- United States of America 1.99%
- Government National Mortgage Association 2 1.74%
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- DFCF vs FLOT · iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF 3.6%
- DFCF vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 3.4%
- DFCF vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 3.2%
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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