ETF comparison
IUSB vs VTIP
US Aggregate Bond vs TIPS.
iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IUSB and VTIP 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
VTIP is 3 bps cheaper than IUSB. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for IUSB.
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 IUSB vs VTIP.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in IUSB
18,044 total- Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. 0.41%
- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.36%
- United States of America 0.35%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.33%
- United States of America 0.33%
Only in VTIP
25 total- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.39%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.33%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.30%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.14%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.97%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.74%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.70%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.59%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with IUSB
- IUSB vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 66.4%
- IUSB vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 60.2%
- IUSB vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 57.4%
- IUSB vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 52.2%
- IUSB vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF 51.5%
- IUSB vs GVI · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 45.3%
More comparisons with VTIP
- VTIP vs JAAA · Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs JMST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Municipal Income ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs JMUB · JPMorgan Municipal ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs JNK · State Street SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP 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/.
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.