ETF comparison
JCPB vs VCRB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Holdings overlap
400 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of JCPB and VCRB would leave roughly 5.2% 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
VCRB is 27 bps cheaper than JCPB. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/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 JCPB vs VCRB.
Top shared holdings
400 shared in total| # | Holding | In JCPB | In VCRB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.55% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.39% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.58% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 4 | United States of America | 0.17% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 5 | United States of America | 0.18% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.13% | 0.52% | 0.13% |
| 7 | United States of America | 0.34% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 8 | United States of America | 0.88% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 9 | HSBC Holdings plc | 0.11% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 10 | United States of America | 0.16% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 11 | United States of America | 0.13% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 12 | HCA, Inc. | 0.08% | 0.11% | 0.08% |
Only in JCPB
2,225 total- United States of America 3.17%
- FNMA/FHLMC 1.78%
- FNMA/FHLMC 1.36%
- FNMA/FHLMC 1.24%
- United States of America 1.15%
- United States of America 0.79%
- United States of America 0.73%
- United States of America 0.65%
- United States of America 0.39%
- United States of America 0.33%
Only in VCRB
3,014 total- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 2.33%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.02%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.97%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.75%
- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.68%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.65%
- Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau 0.60%
- Fannie Mae REMICS 0.59%
- OBX 2026-INV2 Trust 0.57%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.56%
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- VCRB vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 4.6%
- VCRB vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 4.0%
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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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