ETF comparison
BIV vs FBND
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Fidelity Total Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
179 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BIV and FBND would leave roughly 24.3% 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 33 bps cheaper than FBND. On a $100,000 position that's about $330/yr more in fees for FBND.
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 FBND.
Top shared holdings
179 shared in total| # | Holding | In BIV | In FBND | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.14% | 2.21% | 2.14% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.04% | 2.17% | 2.04% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.02% | 1.81% | 1.81% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.08% | 2.34% | 1.08% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.14% | 1.03% | 1.03% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.08% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.94% | 0.93% | 0.93% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.08% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.79% | 1.02% | 0.79% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.75% | 1.18% | 0.75% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.68% | 1.49% | 0.68% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.68% | 0.69% | 0.68% |
Only in BIV
2,176 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.70%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.60%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.56%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.07%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.71%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.53%
- Morgan Stanley 0.15%
- Amazon.com Inc 0.13%
- Morgan Stanley 0.13%
Only in FBND
4,290 total- Fidelity Revere Street Trust 4.62%
- UNITED STATES TREASURY BOND 1.53%
- UNITED STATES TREASURY BOND 1.26%
- FNMA/FHLG TBA ISSUER 1.19%
- GNMA II GTD PASS THRU CTF MULTIPLE ISSUER 1.14%
- UNITED STATES TREASURY BOND 1.12%
- UNITED STATES TREASURY BOND 1.04%
- UNITED STATES TREASURY BOND 0.96%
- GNMA II GTD PASS THRU CTF MULTIPLE ISSUER 0.89%
- UNITED STATES TREASURY BOND 0.84%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with BIV
- BIV vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 20.9%
- BIV vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 19.0%
- BIV vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 18.4%
- BIV vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 17.0%
- BIV vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF 16.8%
- BIV vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 16.7%
More comparisons with FBND
- FBND vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 17.5%
- FBND vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 15.0%
- FBND vs GVI · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 14.9%
- FBND vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 14.8%
- FBND vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 14.6%
- FBND vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 14.6%
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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