ETF comparison
BND vs SHY
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
84 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and SHY would leave roughly 15.9% 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
BND is 12 bps cheaper than SHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for SHY.
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 SHY.
Top shared holdings
84 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In SHY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.47% | 1.71% | 0.47% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 0.42% | 0.41% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.27% | 1.96% | 0.27% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.25% | 1.34% | 0.25% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.25% | 1.07% | 0.25% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.25% | 1.27% | 0.25% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.24% | 1.52% | 0.24% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.23% | 1.36% | 0.23% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.23% | 1.12% | 0.23% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.23% | 1.00% | 0.23% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.22% | 0.97% | 0.22% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.22% | 1.33% | 0.22% |
Only in BND
17,312 total- 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%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.36%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.36%
Only in SHY
5 total- United States of America 1.84%
- United States of America 1.60%
- United States of America 1.32%
- United States of America 1.18%
- United States of America 0.96%
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- BND vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 15.0%
- BND vs LQD · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 13.6%
- BND vs SPTL · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Treasury ETF 10.2%
More comparisons with SHY
- SHY vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.3%
- SHY vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 14.9%
- SHY vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 14.8%
- SHY vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF 14.3%
- SHY vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 13.4%
- SHY vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 12.4%
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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