ETF comparison
CGCP vs SHY
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
10 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGCP and SHY would leave roughly 5.1% 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
SHY is 19 bps cheaper than CGCP. On a $100,000 position that's about $190/yr more in fees for CGCP.
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 CGCP vs SHY.
Top shared holdings
10 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGCP | In SHY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 3.27% | 1.71% | 1.71% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 1.48% | 1.07% | 1.07% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.80% | 0.82% | 0.80% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 1.58% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.32% | 1.00% | 0.32% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.29% | 1.40% | 0.29% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.14% | 0.87% | 0.14% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.04% | 0.52% | 0.04% |
| 9 | United States Treasury | 0.00% | 1.34% | 0.00% |
| 10 | United States Treasury | 0.00% | 0.42% | 0.00% |
Only in CGCP
1,449 total- United States Treasury 4.35%
- UMBS, TBA 2.01%
- United States Treasury 1.73%
- United States Treasury 1.63%
- United States Treasury 1.59%
- Fannie Mae 1.45%
- UMBS, TBA 1.40%
- UMBS, TBA 1.27%
- United States Treasury 1.19%
- Freddie Mac 1.04%
Only in SHY
80 total- United States of America 1.97%
- United States of America 1.61%
- United States of America 1.51%
- United States of America 1.49%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.47%
- United States of America 1.39%
- United States of America 1.39%
- United States of America 1.39%
- United States of America 1.37%
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- CGCP vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 3.6%
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More comparisons with SHY
- SHY vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 4.4%
- SHY vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 2.6%
- SHY vs SCHR · Schwab Intermediate-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 1.9%
- SHY vs SPTI · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Treasury Index ETF 1.5%
- SHY vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 0.9%
- SHY vs GBIL · Goldman Sachs Access Treasury 0-1 Year ETF 0.8%
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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