ETF comparison
FBND vs VCRB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Holdings overlap
445 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FBND and VCRB would leave roughly 8.3% 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
VCRB is 26 bps cheaper than FBND. On a $100,000 position that's about $260/yr more in fees for FBND.
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 FBND vs VCRB.
Top shared holdings
445 shared in total| # | Holding | In FBND | In VCRB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UST NOTES | 2.73% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 2 | UST NOTES | 0.79% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
| 3 | UST NOTES | 0.42% | 0.51% | 0.42% |
| 4 | UST NOTES | 2.04% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 5 | UST NOTES | 0.36% | 0.49% | 0.36% |
| 6 | UST NOTES | 0.48% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 7 | SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP | 0.18% | 0.29% | 0.18% |
| 8 | UNITED STATES TREASURY BOND | 0.42% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 9 | UNITED STATES TREASURY BOND | 0.73% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 10 | UNITED STATES TREASURY BOND | 0.93% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 11 | UNITED STATES TREASURY BOND | 0.34% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 12 | UNITED STATES TREASURY BOND | 0.54% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
Only in FBND
4,185 total- Fidelity Revere Street Trust 3.16%
- FNMA/FHLG TBA ISSUER 1.99%
- UST NOTES 1.97%
- UNITED STATES TREASURY BOND 1.36%
- UST NOTES 1.36%
- GNMA II GTD PASS THRU CTF MULTIPLE ISSUER 1.28%
- FNMA/FHLG TBA ISSUER 1.25%
- UST NOTES 1.09%
- UST NOTES 1.07%
- UST NOTES 1.04%
Only in VCRB
2,969 total- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 2.33%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.02%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.97%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.75%
- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.68%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.65%
- Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau 0.60%
- Fannie Mae REMICS 0.59%
- OBX 2026-INV2 Trust 0.57%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.56%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with FBND
- FBND vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 7.5%
- FBND vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 6.2%
- FBND vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 5.7%
- FBND vs MBB · iShares MBS ETF 5.2%
- FBND vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 4.1%
- FBND vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 3.5%
More comparisons with VCRB
- VCRB vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 7.7%
- VCRB vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 7.1%
- VCRB vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 6.5%
- VCRB vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 6.3%
- VCRB vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 5.3%
- VCRB vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 5.2%
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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