ETF comparison
DFCF vs FLOT
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF · iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
126 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFCF and FLOT would leave roughly 3.6% 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
FLOT is 2 bps cheaper than DFCF. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for DFCF.
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 DFCF vs FLOT.
Top shared holdings
126 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFCF | In FLOT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED | 0.14% | 0.29% | 0.14% |
| 2 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 0.11% | 0.25% | 0.11% |
| 3 | NATWEST MARKETS PLC | 0.11% | 0.17% | 0.11% |
| 4 | INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK | 0.09% | 0.68% | 0.09% |
| 5 | BANQUE FEDERATIVE DU CREDIT MUTUEL SA | 0.09% | 0.10% | 0.09% |
| 6 | AMERICAN HONDA FINANCE CORPORATION | 0.08% | 0.22% | 0.08% |
| 7 | MACQUARIE BANK LIMITED | 0.07% | 0.23% | 0.07% |
| 8 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 0.07% | 0.17% | 0.07% |
| 9 | BANQUE FEDERATIVE DU CREDIT MUTUEL SA | 0.07% | 0.16% | 0.07% |
| 10 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 0.07% | 0.20% | 0.07% |
| 11 | NTT FINANCE CORPORATION | 0.06% | 0.16% | 0.06% |
| 12 | AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED | 0.06% | 0.26% | 0.06% |
Only in DFCF
1,644 total- Federal National Mortgage Association 6.19%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 5.34%
- United States of America 4.70%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 4.10%
- 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%
Only in FLOT
419 total- INTER-AMERICAN DEVEL BK 0.65%
- ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK 0.52%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 0.48%
- AMAZON.COM INC 0.44%
- ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK 0.43%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 0.39%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.38%
- MORGAN STANLEY BANK NA 0.36%
- BANCO SANTANDER SA 0.36%
- COOPERAT RABOBANK UA/NY 0.35%
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- DFCF vs PULS · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF 0.4%
- DFCF vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 0.4%
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- FLOT vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 0.3%
- FLOT vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.0%
- FLOT vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 0.0%
- FLOT vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 0.0%
- FLOT vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 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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