ETF comparison
SPAB vs VCRB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF · Vanguard Core Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
1,184 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPAB and VCRB would leave roughly 15.8% 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
SPAB is 7 bps cheaper than VCRB. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for VCRB.
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 SPAB vs VCRB.
Top shared holdings
1,184 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPAB | In VCRB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.37% | 0.51% | 0.37% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.37% | 0.52% | 0.37% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.36% | 0.41% | 0.36% |
| 4 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.28% | 0.56% | 0.28% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.34% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 6 | UMBS, TBA | 0.27% | 2.33% | 0.27% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.23% | 0.54% | 0.23% |
| 8 | UMBS, TBA | 0.23% | 0.68% | 0.23% |
| 9 | United States Treasury | 0.21% | 0.34% | 0.21% |
| 10 | United States Treasury | 0.21% | 0.53% | 0.21% |
| 11 | United States Treasury | 0.19% | 0.49% | 0.19% |
| 12 | United States Treasury | 0.18% | 1.02% | 0.18% |
Only in SPAB
7,101 total- United States Treasury 0.79%
- United States Treasury 0.44%
- United States Treasury 0.43%
- United States Treasury 0.42%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- 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%
Only in VCRB
2,230 total- NVIDIA Corp 0.97%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.75%
- Fannie Mae REMICS 0.59%
- OBX 2026-INV2 Trust 0.57%
- Finland Government International Bond 0.54%
- OBX 2026-INV4 Trust 0.47%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.43%
- Italy Buoni Poliennali Del Tesoro 0.34%
- Cassa Depositi e Prestiti SpA 0.33%
- EFMT 2026-AE4 0.32%
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More comparisons with SPAB
- SPAB vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 15.2%
- SPAB vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 14.6%
- SPAB vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 14.6%
- SPAB vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 14.3%
- SPAB vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 9.7%
- SPAB vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 9.6%
More comparisons with VCRB
- VCRB vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.0%
- VCRB vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 14.6%
- VCRB vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 13.1%
- 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%
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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