ETF comparison
BIV vs BSV
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
50 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BIV and BSV would leave roughly 0.4% 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 BIV vs BSV.
Top shared holdings
50 shared in total| # | Holding | In BIV | In BSV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.09% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.06% | 0.78% | 0.06% |
| 3 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.06% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.02% | 0.55% | 0.02% |
| 5 | Salesforce Inc | 0.03% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 6 | Toronto-Dominion Bank/The | 0.03% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 7 | General Motors Financial Co Inc | 0.02% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 8 | General Motors Financial Co Inc | 0.01% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 9 | Philippine Government International Bond | 0.01% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 10 | CVS Health Corp | 0.01% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 11 | General Motors Financial Co Inc | 0.02% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 12 | Toyota Motor Credit Corp | 0.02% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in BIV
2,305 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 BSV
3,135 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.12%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.89%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.88%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.81%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.80%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.79%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.77%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.77%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with BIV
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- BIV vs MINT · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.1%
- BIV vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 0.0%
- BIV vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- BIV vs FLOT · iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with BSV
- BSV vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 0.1%
- BSV vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- BSV vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- BSV vs FLOT · iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF 0.0%
- BSV vs JAAA · Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF 0.0%
- BSV vs MBB · iShares MBS ETF 0.0%
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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