ETF comparison
DFCF vs VMBS
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFCF and VMBS would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VMBS 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 VMBS.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in DFCF
1,770 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 VMBS
5,112 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%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.28%
- Freddie Mac Pool 0.27%
- Freddie Mac Pool 0.27%
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- DFCF vs BIV · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 20.9%
- DFCF vs GVI · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 18.9%
- DFCF vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 16.6%
- DFCF vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 16.2%
- DFCF vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.3%
More comparisons with VMBS
- VMBS vs FLOT · iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs GVI · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs ICSH · iShares Ultra Short Duration Bond Active ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs JAAA · Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income 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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