ETF comparison
DFCF vs SHY
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
17 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DFCF and SHY would leave roughly 4.4% 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 2 bps cheaper than DFCF. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for DFCF.
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 DFCF vs SHY.
Top shared holdings
17 shared in total| # | Holding | In DFCF | In SHY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 1.06% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.60% | 0.71% | 0.60% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.47% | 1.27% | 0.47% |
| 4 | United States of America | 0.46% | 1.34% | 0.46% |
| 5 | United States of America | 0.44% | 1.33% | 0.44% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.39% | 1.71% | 0.39% |
| 7 | United States of America | 0.38% | 0.76% | 0.38% |
| 8 | United States of America | 0.27% | 1.34% | 0.27% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.19% | 1.09% | 0.19% |
| 10 | United States of America | 0.10% | 0.96% | 0.10% |
| 11 | United States of America | 0.08% | 0.87% | 0.08% |
| 12 | United States of America | 0.06% | 1.47% | 0.06% |
Only in DFCF
1,753 total- Federal National Mortgage Association 6.19%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 5.34%
- United States of America 4.70%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 4.10%
- United States of America 3.07%
- Government National Mortgage Association 2 3.00%
- United States of America 2.94%
- United States of America 2.93%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 2.85%
- United States of America 2.25%
Only in SHY
73 total- United States of America 1.97%
- United States of America 1.61%
- United States of America 1.51%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.40%
- United States of America 1.39%
- United States of America 1.39%
- United States of America 1.37%
- United States of America 1.35%
- United States of America 1.35%
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- DFCF vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 2.0%
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- DFCF vs PULS · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF 0.4%
More comparisons with SHY
- 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%
- SHY vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 0.6%
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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