ETF comparison
AGG vs SPSB
US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond Index ETF
Holdings overlap
1,511 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AGG and SPSB would leave roughly 4.6% 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
State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond Index ETF
State Street · US Corporate Bond
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
AGG is 1 bps cheaper than SPSB. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SPSB.
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 SPSB.
Top shared holdings
1,511 shared in total| # | Holding | In AGG | In SPSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.02% | 0.42% | 0.02% |
| 2 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.02% | 0.31% | 0.02% |
| 3 | PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER | 0.01% | 0.37% | 0.01% |
| 4 | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.01% | 0.18% | 0.01% |
| 5 | AMGEN INC | 0.01% | 0.25% | 0.01% |
| 6 | CVS HEALTH CORP | 0.01% | 0.27% | 0.01% |
| 7 | CIGNA GROUP/THE | 0.01% | 0.21% | 0.01% |
| 8 | AERCAP IRELAND CAP/GLOBA | 0.01% | 0.44% | 0.01% |
| 9 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.01% | 0.14% | 0.01% |
| 10 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.01% | 0.30% | 0.01% |
| 11 | CITIGROUP INC | 0.01% | 0.17% | 0.01% |
| 12 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.01% | 0.25% | 0.01% |
Only in AGG
11,871 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 SPSB
88 total- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 0.38%
- WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.37%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.36%
- MORGAN STANLEY PVT BANK 0.31%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.23%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 0.21%
- US BANCORP 0.19%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.18%
- APPLE INC 0.17%
- HONEYWELL AEROSPACE INC 0.17%
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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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