ETF comparison
AGG vs BSV
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
3,061 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AGG and BSV would leave roughly 33.9% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 AGG vs BSV.
Top shared holdings
3,061 shared in total| # | Holding | In AGG | In BSV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.41% | 0.88% | 0.41% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.35% | 0.39% | 0.35% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.33% | 0.64% | 0.33% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 0.31% | 0.55% | 0.31% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.31% | 1.12% | 0.31% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.31% | 0.42% | 0.31% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.30% | 0.56% | 0.30% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.30% | 0.57% | 0.30% |
| 9 | United States Treasury | 0.29% | 0.55% | 0.29% |
| 10 | United States Treasury | 0.29% | 0.70% | 0.29% |
| 11 | United States Treasury | 0.28% | 0.45% | 0.28% |
| 12 | United States Treasury | 0.27% | 0.63% | 0.27% |
Only in AGG
10,205 total- United States Treasury 0.42%
- United States Treasury 0.41%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.38%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
Only in BSV
124 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.78%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.67%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.26%
- Federal Home Loan Banks 0.05%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.03%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.03%
- Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau 0.03%
- Federal Home Loan Banks 0.03%
- European Bank for Reconstruction & Development 0.03%
- Canada Government International Bond 0.03%
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- AGG vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 30.8%
- AGG vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 24.8%
- AGG vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 24.4%
- AGG vs VGIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 20.8%
- AGG vs SCHR · Schwab Intermediate-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 19.9%
- AGG vs SPTI · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Treasury ETF 19.9%
More comparisons with BSV
- BSV vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 30.2%
- BSV vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 28.9%
- BSV vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 22.3%
- BSV vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 9.0%
- BSV vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 7.0%
- BSV vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 6.5%
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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