ETF comparison
DFCF vs SPAB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
924 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFCF and SPAB would leave roughly 15.2% 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
SPAB is 14 bps cheaper than DFCF. On a $100,000 position that's about $140/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 SPAB.
Top shared holdings
924 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFCF | In SPAB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.39% | 0.42% | 0.39% |
| 2 | United States of America | 1.06% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.65% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 4 | United States of America | 0.65% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 5 | United States of America | 0.91% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.61% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 7 | United States of America | 0.76% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 8 | United States of America | 0.30% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.25% | 0.33% | 0.25% |
| 10 | United States of America | 0.44% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 11 | United States of America | 0.53% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 12 | United States of America | 0.87% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
Only in DFCF
846 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 SPAB
7,361 total- United States Treasury 0.79%
- United States Treasury 0.44%
- United States Treasury 0.43%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
- United States Treasury 0.34%
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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%
- DFCF vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 9.1%
- DFCF vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 9.0%
More comparisons with SPAB
- SPAB vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 14.6%
- SPAB vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 14.6%
- SPAB vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 14.3%
- SPAB vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 9.7%
- SPAB vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 9.6%
- SPAB vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 7.7%
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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