ETF comparison
TIP vs VUSB
TIPS vs US Aggregate Bond.
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of TIP and VUSB 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
VUSB is 8 bps cheaper than TIP. On a $100,000 position that's about $80/yr more in fees for TIP.
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 TIP vs VUSB.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in TIP
48 total- United States of America 3.99%
- United States of America 3.94%
- United States of America 3.92%
- United States of America 3.71%
- United States of America 3.55%
- United States of America 3.37%
- United States of America 3.32%
- United States of America 3.31%
- United States of America 3.29%
- United States of America 3.29%
Only in VUSB
1,281 total- United States Treasury Bill 4.19%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.67%
- PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The 0.58%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.52%
- Regions Bank/Birmingham AL 0.51%
- US Bancorp 0.50%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 0.49%
- Truist Bank 0.44%
- Westlake Flooring Master Trust 0.44%
- DLLAD 2024-1 LLC 0.43%
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- TIP vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 97.8%
- TIP vs TIPX · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-10 Year TIPS ETF 84.0%
- TIP vs STIP · iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF 50.4%
- TIP vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 50.4%
More comparisons with VUSB
- VUSB vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VUSB vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VUSB vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VUSB vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VUSB vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 10.4%
- VUSB vs MINT · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 8.2%
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.