ETF comparison
BIV vs BOND
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund
Holdings overlap
126 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BIV and BOND would leave roughly 2.8% 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
BIV is 51 bps cheaper than BOND. On a $100,000 position that's about $510/yr more in fees for BOND.
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 BIV vs BOND.
Top shared holdings
126 shared in total| # | Holding | In BIV | In BOND | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.09% | 0.13% | 0.09% |
| 2 | Bank of America Corp | 0.08% | 0.13% | 0.08% |
| 3 | Bank of America Corp | 0.08% | 0.25% | 0.08% |
| 4 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.08% | 0.28% | 0.08% |
| 5 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.08% | 0.24% | 0.08% |
| 6 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.07% | 0.23% | 0.07% |
| 7 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.07% | 0.28% | 0.07% |
| 8 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.07% | 0.08% | 0.07% |
| 9 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.07% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 10 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.06% | 0.12% | 0.06% |
| 11 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.06% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 12 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.05% | 0.14% | 0.05% |
Only in BIV
2,229 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.14%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.14%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.13%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.08%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.08%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.02%
Only in BOND
1,393 total- UMBS, TBA 5.56%
- PIMCO Mortgage-Backed Securities Active Exchange-Traded Fund 4.07%
- UMBS, TBA 3.46%
- United States Treasury 3.39%
- UMBS, TBA 2.73%
- United States Treasury 2.57%
- UMBS, TBA 2.54%
- UMBS, TBA 2.27%
- United States Treasury 1.94%
- United States Treasury 1.93%
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More comparisons with BIV
- BIV vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 1.7%
- BIV vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.4%
- BIV vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.3%
- BIV vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 0.2%
- BIV vs MINT · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.1%
- BIV vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with BOND
- BOND vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 2.7%
- BOND vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 2.3%
- BOND vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 2.3%
- BOND vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 2.2%
- BOND vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 2.0%
- BOND vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 2.0%
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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