ETF comparison
CGCP vs IUSB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
758 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGCP and IUSB would leave roughly 7.3% 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
IUSB is 28 bps cheaper than CGCP. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/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 IUSB.
Top shared holdings
758 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGCP | In IUSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UMBS, TBA | 0.37% | 0.41% | 0.37% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 1.63% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 1.48% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 3.27% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.85% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.80% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.21% | 0.37% | 0.21% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 1.19% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 9 | UMBS, TBA | 0.18% | 0.30% | 0.18% |
| 10 | United States Treasury | 0.36% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 11 | United States Treasury | 0.72% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 12 | United States Treasury | 0.58% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
Only in CGCP
701 total- UMBS, TBA 2.01%
- UMBS, TBA 1.27%
- Freddie Mac 1.04%
- UMBS, TBA 0.80%
- UMBS, TBA 0.75%
- Freddie Mac 0.50%
- Freddie Mac 0.47%
- UMBS, TBA 0.46%
- Freddie Mac 0.45%
- Freddie Mac 0.37%
Only in IUSB
17,286 total- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.36%
- United States of America 0.35%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.33%
- United States of America 0.33%
- United States of America 0.33%
- United States of America 0.33%
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- IUSB vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 7.2%
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- IUSB vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 4.1%
- IUSB vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 4.1%
- IUSB vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 3.7%
- IUSB vs SPMB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond ETF 3.6%
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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