ETF comparison
CGCP vs VGSH
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
8 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGCP and VGSH would leave roughly 5.7% 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
VGSH is 31 bps cheaper than CGCP. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/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 VGSH.
Top shared holdings
8 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGCP | In VGSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 3.27% | 2.24% | 2.24% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 1.48% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 1.58% | 0.99% | 0.99% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 0.80% | 1.10% | 0.80% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.29% | 1.29% | 0.29% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.29% | 1.19% | 0.29% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.04% | 1.12% | 0.04% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.00% | 0.83% | 0.00% |
Only in CGCP
1,451 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%
- Fannie Mae 1.45%
- UMBS, TBA 1.40%
- UMBS, TBA 1.27%
- United States Treasury 1.19%
- Freddie Mac 1.04%
Only in VGSH
83 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.40%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.35%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.31%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.30%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
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More comparisons with CGCP
- CGCP vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 5.6%
- CGCP vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 5.2%
- CGCP vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 5.2%
- CGCP vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 5.2%
- CGCP vs BIV · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 5.1%
- CGCP vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 5.0%
More comparisons with VGSH
- VGSH vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 3.9%
- VGSH vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 2.6%
- VGSH vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 2.5%
- VGSH vs SHV · iShares 0–1 Year Treasury Bond ETF 1.9%
- VGSH vs GBIL · Goldman Sachs Access Treasury 0-1 Year ETF 1.3%
- VGSH vs MUNI · PIMCO Intermediate Municipal Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 1.2%
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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