ETF comparison
TLT vs VCRB
US Treasury (Long) vs US Aggregate Bond.
Holdings overlap
41 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of TLT and VCRB would leave roughly 4.0% 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
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Cost difference
VCRB is 5 bps cheaper than TLT. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for TLT.
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 TLT vs VCRB.
Top shared holdings
41 shared in total| # | Holding | In TLT | In VCRB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 2.73% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 2 | United States of America | 4.50% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 3 | United States of America | 4.58% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 4 | United States of America | 4.40% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 5 | United States of America | 4.46% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 6 | United States of America | 1.01% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 7 | United States of America | 3.80% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 8 | United States of America | 2.97% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 9 | United States of America | 3.94% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 10 | United States of America | 1.33% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 11 | United States of America | 2.90% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 12 | United States of America | 3.46% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
Only in TLT
5 total- United States of America 3.95%
- United States of America 0.90%
- United States of America 0.54%
- United States of America 0.39%
- United States of America 0.00%
Only in VCRB
3,373 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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- TLT vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 3.3%
- TLT vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 2.5%
- TLT vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 1.8%
- TLT vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.6%
- TLT vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 0.6%
- TLT vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 0.5%
More comparisons with VCRB
- VCRB vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 3.9%
- VCRB vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 3.4%
- VCRB vs MBB · iShares MBS ETF 3.2%
- VCRB vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 2.6%
- VCRB vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 2.6%
- VCRB vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 2.6%
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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