ETF comparison
BIVvsGVI
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
2,224 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BIV and GVI would leave roughly29.9%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
BIV is 17 bps cheaper than GVI. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for GVI.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open thecost calculator pre-filled with BIV vs GVI.
Top shared holdings
2,224 shared in total| # | Holding | In BIV | In GVI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.13% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.14% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.04% | 0.76% | 0.76% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.04% | 0.76% | 0.76% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.08% | 0.76% | 0.76% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.94% | 0.74% | 0.74% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.02% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.14% | 0.70% | 0.70% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.08% | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.84% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.10% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.70% | 0.59% | 0.59% |
Only in BIV
131 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond1.07%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond0.10%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp0.08%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp0.08%
- NVIDIA Corp0.06%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond0.06%
- Mizuho Financial Group Inc0.04%
- Corp Andina de Fomento0.04%
- State of California0.04%
- NVIDIA Corp0.04%
Only in GVI
3,954 total- BlackRock Funds III0.85%
- United States Treasury0.67%
- United States Treasury0.63%
- United States Treasury0.61%
- United States Treasury0.60%
- United States Treasury0.56%
- United States Treasury0.55%
- United States Treasury0.55%
- United States Treasury0.54%
- United States Treasury0.54%
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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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