ETF comparison
CGCP vs VMBS
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
48 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGCP and VMBS would leave roughly 1.8% 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
VMBS 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 VMBS.
Top shared holdings
48 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGCP | In VMBS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freddie Mac | 1.04% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 2 | Freddie Mac | 0.50% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 3 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.13% | 0.28% | 0.13% |
| 4 | Fannie Mae | 1.45% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 5 | Fannie Mae | 0.13% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 6 | Fannie Mae | 0.21% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 7 | Freddie Mac | 0.37% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 8 | Freddie Mac | 0.41% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 9 | UMBS, TBA | 1.27% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 10 | Freddie Mac | 0.43% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 11 | Fannie Mae | 0.06% | 0.14% | 0.06% |
| 12 | Fannie Mae | 0.07% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
Only in CGCP
1,411 total- United States Treasury 4.35%
- United States Treasury 3.27%
- United States Treasury 1.73%
- United States Treasury 1.63%
- United States Treasury 1.59%
- United States Treasury 1.58%
- United States Treasury 1.48%
- UMBS, TBA 1.40%
- United States Treasury 1.19%
- United States Treasury 0.85%
Only in VMBS
5,064 total- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.52%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.36%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.32%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.31%
- Fannie Mae Pool 0.29%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.29%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.29%
- Freddie Mac Pool 0.27%
- Freddie Mac Pool 0.27%
- Freddie Mac Pool 0.26%
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- VMBS vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 0.0%
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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