ETF comparison
DFCF vs GOVT
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Intermediate).
Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
67 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFCF and GOVT would leave roughly 16.2% 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
GOVT is 12 bps cheaper than DFCF. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/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 GOVT.
Top shared holdings
67 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFCF | In GOVT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.87% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.91% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.72% | 5.28% | 0.72% |
| 4 | United States of America | 1.06% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 5 | United States of America | 0.65% | 0.82% | 0.65% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.89% | 0.64% | 0.64% |
| 7 | United States of America | 0.61% | 0.76% | 0.61% |
| 8 | United States of America | 0.75% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.76% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 10 | United States of America | 1.00% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 11 | United States of America | 0.65% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 12 | United States of America | 0.44% | 0.98% | 0.44% |
Only in DFCF
1,703 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 GOVT
147 total- United States of America 2.95%
- United States of America 2.63%
- United States of America 2.08%
- United States of America 1.62%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.38%
- United States of America 1.37%
- United States of America 1.36%
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- DFCF vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.2%
- DFCF vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 15.2%
- DFCF vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 14.7%
- DFCF vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 9.5%
More comparisons with GOVT
- GOVT vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 15.3%
- GOVT vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 14.8%
- GOVT vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 11.4%
- GOVT vs IEF · iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF 9.6%
- GOVT vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 7.7%
- GOVT vs TLH · iShares 10-20 Year Treasury Bond ETF 7.4%
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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