Capital Group Core Bond ETF
$25.28−0.24 (−0.96%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.27%
- Fund size
- $6.6B
- 1Y return
- +0.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.30%
- Holdings
- 632
- Volume · 30D
- 1.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $25.52
- 52W range
The ETF.net CGCB Grade
Score 73 of 100 sits in the A band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.BScore 60Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 36Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 88Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 83Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 73Category rank
Our read on CGCB
ACapital Group's core bond ETF uses the Bloomberg US Aggregate as a yardstick rather than a blueprint, and charges 0.27% to do it. The mandate is the unglamorous job bonds get hired for: diversification and capital preservation.
The fund seeks to provide the diversification and capital-preservation benefits associated with core bonds.
Why people hold it
- At 0.27%, it undercuts the core-bond median of 0.36% and most rivals measured against the same index: JCPB 0.37%, JFLX 0.45%, BOND 0.56%.
- Roughly 600 bonds behind one stated job: the diversification and capital-preservation benefits of core bonds. Income lands monthly.capitalgroup.com
- Portfolio stays tightly aligned with what the prospectus describes, one of the stronger implementations in the core bond group.
- Multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, notable for a product that only launched in 2023.
Worth knowing
- Plain trackers of the same index run 0.03% (BND, SPAB, SCHZ). You are paying up for security selection instead of a copy of the benchmark.
- Core bonds still move with interest rates and credit conditions. Capital preservation is the stated aim, not a floor under the price.
- Launched in 2023, so its history is shorter than most core bond ETFs sitting next to it.
CGCB Holdings
- Bonds
- 632
- 14%
- CAPITAL GROUP CENTRAL CASH FUN CAPITAL GROUP CNTRL CSH M
Geography
- United States81.06%
- United Kingdom4.71%
- France2.35%
- Luxembourg1.79%
- Mexico1.53%
- Japan1.50%
- South Korea1.11%
- Ireland1.11%
- 4.83%
CGCB Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | CGCB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.1% |
| 1 month | −0.9% |
| 3 months | −1.4% |
| 1 year | +0.0% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | CGCB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.1% | |
| 2025 | +7.3% | |
| 2024 | +1.4% | |
| 2023 | +6.8% |
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CGCB Dividends
- 4.30%
- $1.10
- $0.08 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2026 | Sep 1, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.08 |
| May 29, 2026 | Jun 1, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Apr 30, 2026 | May 1, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Mar 2, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Feb 2, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Nov 28, 2025 | Dec 1, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Oct 31, 2025 | Nov 3, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.09 |
CGCB Risk
- 5.5%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.13
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −5.2%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.22
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CGCB Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
40 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.