ETF comparison
PAAA vs VCRB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PAAA and VCRB would leave roughly 0.1% 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
VCRB is 9 bps cheaper than PAAA. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/yr more in fees for PAAA.
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 PAAA vs VCRB.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In PAAA | In VCRB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APIDOS CLO XLVII LTD | 0.61% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 2 | BALBOA BAY LOAN FUNDING 2023-2 LTD | 0.14% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 3 | VOYA CLO 2022-3 LTD | 0.20% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 4 | BARINGS CLO 2025-III LTD | 0.56% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in PAAA
307 total- CBAM 2017-2 LTD 1.58%
- Regatta XXVII Funding Ltd / Regatta XXVII Funding LLC 1.29%
- BENEFIT STREET PARTNERS CLO XII-B LTD 1.21%
- GOLDENTREE LOAN MANAGEMENT US CLO 31 LTD 1.21%
- MAGNETITE XL LTD 1.13%
- OCP CLO LTD 1.12%
- BATTALION CLO XXIV LTD 1.09%
- AGL CORE CLO 1.06%
- REGATTA XXVI FUNDING LTD 1.01%
- BALBOA BAY LOAN FUNDING 2024-1 LTD 1.01%
Only in VCRB
3,410 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%
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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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