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ETF comparison

BND vs NEAR

Both US Aggregate Bond.

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
3.0 %

245 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and NEAR would leave roughly 3.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BND unmatched 96.1% Shared 3.0% NEAR unmatched 96.2%

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.

In BND only
17,151 positions
Shared
245 positions
In NEAR only
1,335 positions

Side by side

BND

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Aggregate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$389.05B
whole fund, 6 share classes
TTM yield
4.13%
Top-10 conc.
4.1%
NEAR

iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF

iShares · US Aggregate Bond

73 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.25%
Net assets
$5.13B
TTM yield
4.49%
Top-10 conc.
31.2%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
75
52
Tax efficiency
52
100
Liquidity
87
100
Concentration
70
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Tracking quality
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BND sub-score NEAR

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

BND is 22 bps cheaper than NEAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $220/yr more in fees for NEAR.

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 BND vs NEAR.

Top shared holdings

245 shared in total
# Holding In BND In NEAR Overlap
1 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.23% 0.35% 0.23%
2 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.21% 0.78% 0.21%
3 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.19% 1.04% 0.19%
4 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.18% 0.27% 0.18%
5 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.17% 1.60% 0.17%
6 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.17% 3.73% 0.17%
7 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.16% 1.47% 0.16%
8 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.14% 3.20% 0.14%
9 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.12% 0.43% 0.12%
10 T-Mobile USA Inc 0.04% 0.15% 0.04%
11 Morgan Stanley Private Bank NA 0.03% 0.32% 0.03%
12 Boeing Co/The 0.03% 0.07% 0.03%

Only in BND

17,151 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.47%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.40%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%

Only in NEAR

1,335 total
  • United States Treasury 14.14%
  • United States Treasury 4.25%
  • CITIGROUP INC 0.48%
  • Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust 0.37%
  • EQT CORP 0.36%
  • GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.32%
  • UBER TECHNOLOGIES INC 0.26%
  • SMB Private Education Loan Trust 0.26%
  • Curzon Mortgages PLC 0.25%
  • CAISSE D'AMORT DETTE SOC 0.25%

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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.