ETF comparison
BIV vs EAGG
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
924 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BIV and EAGG would leave roughly 15.7% 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
BIV is 7 bps cheaper than EAGG. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for EAGG.
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 BIV vs EAGG.
Top shared holdings
924 shared in total| # | Holding | In BIV | In EAGG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.14% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.08% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.04% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.08% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.13% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.04% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.79% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.14% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.94% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.02% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.65% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.10% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
Only in BIV
1,431 total- Amazon.com Inc 0.13%
- Bank of America Corp 0.12%
- Meta Platforms Inc 0.11%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 0.11%
- Meta Platforms Inc 0.10%
- State of Illinois 0.10%
- Bank of America Corp 0.09%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.09%
- Wells Fargo & Co 0.09%
- Wells Fargo & Co 0.08%
Only in EAGG
4,229 total- UMBS, TBA 0.65%
- UMBS, TBA 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- Freddie Mac 0.38%
- UMBS, TBA 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.35%
- United States Treasury 0.35%
- United States Treasury 0.34%
- United States Treasury 0.33%
- United States Treasury 0.31%
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- BIV vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 15.4%
- BIV vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 10.0%
- BIV vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 7.1%
- BIV vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 5.2%
- BIV vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 5.1%
- BIV vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 2.8%
More comparisons with EAGG
- EAGG vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 15.5%
- EAGG vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 15.0%
- EAGG vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 13.1%
- EAGG vs MBB · iShares MBS ETF 12.7%
- EAGG vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 9.5%
- EAGG vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 7.7%
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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