ETF comparison
EAGG vs VCRB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF · Vanguard Core Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
703 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EAGG and VCRB would leave roughly 13.1% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.10% vs 0.10%).
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Top shared holdings
703 shared in total| # | Holding | In EAGG | In VCRB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.41% | 0.52% | 0.41% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.40% | 0.51% | 0.40% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.38% | 0.54% | 0.38% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 0.37% | 0.43% | 0.37% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.29% | 0.41% | 0.29% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.22% | 0.53% | 0.22% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.19% | 0.36% | 0.19% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.19% | 1.02% | 0.19% |
| 9 | United States Treasury | 0.19% | 0.49% | 0.19% |
| 10 | United States Treasury | 0.26% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 11 | United States Treasury | 0.17% | 0.27% | 0.17% |
| 12 | United States Treasury | 0.16% | 0.34% | 0.16% |
Only in EAGG
4,507 total- UMBS, TBA 0.51%
- United States Treasury 0.47%
- Freddie Mac 0.42%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.38%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
- UMBS, TBA 0.35%
Only in VCRB
2,711 total- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 2.33%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.97%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.75%
- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.68%
- Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau 0.60%
- Fannie Mae REMICS 0.59%
- OBX 2026-INV2 Trust 0.57%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.56%
- Finland Government International Bond 0.54%
- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.54%
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- EAGG vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 9.3%
- EAGG vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 7.7%
- EAGG vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 6.0%
- EAGG vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 5.2%
- EAGG vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 4.1%
More comparisons with VCRB
- VCRB vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 12.1%
- VCRB vs GVI · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 10.4%
- VCRB vs BIV · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 10.0%
- VCRB vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 8.3%
- VCRB vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 7.7%
- VCRB vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 7.1%
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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