ETF comparison
DFCF vs VGSH
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
13 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFCF and VGSH would leave roughly 3.9% 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 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 VGSH.
Top shared holdings
13 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFCF | In VGSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 1.06% | 0.99% | 0.99% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.60% | 0.85% | 0.60% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.47% | 1.18% | 0.47% |
| 4 | United States of America | 0.46% | 1.25% | 0.46% |
| 5 | United States of America | 0.44% | 1.17% | 0.44% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.39% | 2.24% | 0.39% |
| 7 | United States of America | 0.19% | 0.85% | 0.19% |
| 8 | United States of America | 0.10% | 0.81% | 0.10% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.08% | 0.86% | 0.08% |
| 10 | United States of America | 0.05% | 1.15% | 0.05% |
| 11 | United States of America | 0.05% | 1.18% | 0.05% |
| 12 | United States of America | 0.04% | 0.82% | 0.04% |
Only in DFCF
1,757 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 VGSH
78 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 1.29%
- 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 1.24%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with DFCF
- DFCF vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 3.6%
- DFCF vs FLOT · iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF 3.6%
- DFCF vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 3.4%
- DFCF vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 3.2%
- DFCF vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 1.8%
- DFCF vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.6%
More comparisons with VGSH
- 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%
- VGSH vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 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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