Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF
$21.50−0.20 (−0.92%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.34%
- Fund size
- $8.5B
- 1Y return
- −0.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.18%
- Holdings
- 1234
- Volume · 30D
- 1.6M sh
- NAV per share
- $21.70
- 52W range
The ETF.net CGCP Grade
Score 68 of 100 sits in the B 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.CScore 50Category 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.CScore 50Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 83Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 48Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 71Category rank
Our read on CGCP
BCapital Group's 2022 ETF debut class produced this one: an active core-plus bond fund that hunts value across the credit spectrum instead of cloning the Agg, and pays income monthly.
The fund seeks current income and maximum total return while preserving capital.
Why people hold it
- Actively managed, not index-bound. The mandate is current income and maximum total return while preserving capital, with fundamental research hunting value across the credit spectrum.
- 0.34% a year is a modest toll for active bond management, and it sits below the median fee in its aggregate-bond cohort.
- About 1,200 holdings and monthly distributions: issuer risk spread thin, income on a regular schedule.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, and the portfolio has stayed tightly aligned with its stated mandate, a top-quartile showing among aggregate-bond ETFs.
Worth knowing
- Index rivals BND, SPAB and SCHZ charge 0.03%. Roughly ten times the fee buys a manager's judgment calls, not a guarantee they pay off.
- The 'plus' is credit risk. Roaming the credit spectrum brings more default and spread sensitivity than a Treasury-heavy index tracker carries.
- Launched in 2022, so the track record is short next to index bond funds that have been compounding through multiple rate cycles.
CGCP Holdings
- Bonds
- 1,234
- 30%
- CAPITAL GROUP CENTRAL CASH FUN CAPITAL GROUP CNTRL CSH M
Sectors
- Real Estate98.8%
- Energy1.2%
Geography
- United States89.78%
- Luxembourg1.82%
- Mexico1.30%
- Colombia0.91%
- France0.84%
- Netherlands0.80%
- United Kingdom0.68%
- Bermuda0.45%
- 3.41%
CGCP 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 | CGCP |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.0% |
| 1 month | −1.0% |
| 3 months | −1.4% |
| 1 year | −0.1% |
| 3 years | +5.2% |
| 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 | CGCP |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.0% | |
| 2025 | +7.3% | |
| 2024 | +2.9% | |
| 2023 | +7.2% | |
| 2022 | −9.8% |
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CGCP Dividends
- 5.18%
- $1.13
- $0.09 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2026 | Sep 1, 2026 | $0.09 |
| 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 | $0.10 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Mar 2, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Feb 2, 2026 | $0.08 |
| 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 |
CGCP Risk
- 5.4%
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.
- 0.10
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.
- −15.1%
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.
- 0.95
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CGCP Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
55 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.