ETF comparison
BLV vs EAGG
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
1,507 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BLV and EAGG would leave roughly 16.3% 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
BLV 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 BLV vs EAGG.
Top shared holdings
1,507 shared in total| # | Holding | In BLV | In EAGG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.24% | 0.36% | 0.24% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.68% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.10% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.08% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.08% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.15% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.80% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.17% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.86% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.75% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.97% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.85% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
Only in BLV
1,476 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.23%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.18%
- Amazon.com Inc 0.11%
- Boeing Co/The 0.10%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.09%
- Broadcom Inc 0.08%
- Honeywell Aerospace Inc 0.07%
- CVS Health Corp 0.07%
- Boeing Co/The 0.07%
- Abbott Laboratories 0.07%
Only in EAGG
3,646 total- UMBS, TBA 0.65%
- United States Treasury 0.43%
- United States Treasury 0.41%
- UMBS, TBA 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- Freddie Mac 0.38%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- UMBS, TBA 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
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- BLV vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 14.8%
- BLV vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 14.3%
- BLV vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 14.3%
- BLV vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 12.1%
- BLV vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 12.1%
- BLV vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 8.4%
More comparisons with EAGG
- EAGG vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 15.8%
- EAGG vs BIV · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 15.7%
- 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%
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.