ETF comparison
JPST vs VCRB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Holdings overlap
31 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of JPST and VCRB would leave roughly 1.1% 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
VCRB is 8 bps cheaper than JPST. On a $100,000 position that's about $80/yr more in fees for JPST.
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 JPST vs VCRB.
Top shared holdings
31 shared in total| # | Holding | In JPST | In VCRB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Citigroup, Inc. | 0.21% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 2 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. | 0.14% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 3 | Morgan Stanley Private Bank NA | 0.10% | 0.20% | 0.10% |
| 4 | General Motors Financial Co., Inc. | 0.17% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | UBS Group AG | 0.16% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 6 | Santander UK Group Holdings plc | 0.09% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 7 | Huntington National Bank (The) | 0.16% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 8 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 0.06% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 9 | Truist Bank | 0.10% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 10 | Volkswagen Group of America Finance LLC | 0.06% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 11 | Amcor Flexibles North America, Inc. | 0.08% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 12 | CRH SMW Finance DAC | 0.08% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in JPST
771 total- United States of America 2.31%
- United States of America 0.70%
- Ventas Realty LP 0.65%
- Capital One Financial Corp. 0.59%
- National Bank of Canada 0.59%
- Athene Global Funding 0.58%
- First Abu Dhabi Bank PJSC 0.58%
- Energy Transfer LP 0.58%
- DNB Bank ASA 0.54%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.54%
Only in VCRB
3,383 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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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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