ETF comparison
GOVT vs JCPB
US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US Aggregate Bond.
iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
26 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and JCPB would leave roughly 4.4% 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 32 bps cheaper than JCPB. On a $100,000 position that's about $320/yr more in fees for JCPB.
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 GOVT vs JCPB.
Top shared holdings
26 shared in total| # | Holding | In GOVT | In JCPB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.77% | 0.79% | 0.77% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.60% | 0.88% | 0.60% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.52% | 1.15% | 0.52% |
| 4 | United States of America | 0.46% | 3.17% | 0.46% |
| 5 | United States of America | 0.43% | 0.58% | 0.43% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.19% | 0.55% | 0.19% |
| 7 | United States of America | 0.29% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 8 | United States of America | 0.27% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.44% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 10 | United States of America | 0.13% | 0.16% | 0.13% |
| 11 | United States of America | 0.32% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 12 | United States of America | 0.12% | 0.73% | 0.12% |
Only in GOVT
188 total- United States of America 5.28%
- 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 1.38%
- United States of America 1.36%
- United States of America 1.20%
Only in JCPB
2,599 total- FNMA/FHLMC 1.78%
- FNMA/FHLMC 1.36%
- FNMA/FHLMC 1.24%
- United States of America 0.65%
- United States of America 0.39%
- United States of America 0.33%
- United States of America 0.29%
- FHLMC Pool 0.29%
- GNMA 0.28%
- FNMA 0.26%
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- GOVT vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.9%
- GOVT vs ICSH · iShares Ultra Short Duration Bond Active ETF 0.7%
- GOVT vs MUNI · PIMCO Intermediate Municipal Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.6%
More comparisons with JCPB
- JCPB vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 4.3%
- JCPB vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 3.9%
- JCPB vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 3.7%
- JCPB vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 3.3%
- JCPB vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 3.1%
- JCPB vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 2.3%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.