ETF comparison
AGG vs LQD
US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
3,159 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AGG and LQD would leave roughly 12.9% 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
AGG is 11 bps cheaper than LQD. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/yr more in fees for LQD.
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 AGG vs LQD.
Top shared holdings
3,159 shared in total| # | Holding | In AGG | In LQD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHARTER COMM OPT LLC/CAP | 0.03% | 0.15% | 0.03% |
| 2 | COMCAST CORP | 0.03% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 3 | ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV | 0.03% | 0.18% | 0.03% |
| 4 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.02% | 0.17% | 0.02% |
| 5 | CVS HEALTH CORP | 0.02% | 0.17% | 0.02% |
| 6 | META PLATFORMS INC | 0.02% | 0.16% | 0.02% |
| 7 | CHARTER COMM OPT LLC/CAP | 0.02% | 0.15% | 0.02% |
| 8 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.02% | 0.14% | 0.02% |
| 9 | SPACE EXPLORATION TECH | 0.02% | 0.17% | 0.02% |
| 10 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.02% | 0.12% | 0.02% |
| 11 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.02% | 0.14% | 0.02% |
| 12 | ABBVIE INC | 0.02% | 0.12% | 0.02% |
Only in AGG
10,223 total- United States Treasury 0.41%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.38%
- United States Treasury 0.38%
- United States Treasury 0.38%
Only in LQD
6 total- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.02%
- ATLAS WAREHOUSE LEND 0.02%
- ATLAS WAREHOUSE LEND 0.02%
- BECTON DICKINSON & CO 0.01%
- TEVA PHARM FIN CO LLC 0.00%
- BLUE OWL FINANCE LLC 0.00%
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- AGG vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 9.1%
- AGG vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 7.7%
- AGG vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 7.6%
More comparisons with LQD
- LQD vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 12.0%
- LQD vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- LQD vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 0.0%
- LQD vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- LQD vs ICVT · iShares Convertible Bond ETF 0.0%
- LQD vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 0.0%
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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