ETF comparison
BNDX vs SHY
International Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BNDX and SHY would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
BNDX is 8 bps cheaper than SHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $80/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 BNDX vs SHY.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in BNDX
6,818 total- United Kingdom Gilt 0.41%
- French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.37%
- French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.36%
- United Kingdom Gilt 0.36%
- United Kingdom Gilt 0.35%
- United Kingdom Gilt 0.34%
- French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.33%
- French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.33%
- Bundesrepublik Deutschland Bundesanleihe 0.30%
- United Kingdom Gilt 0.30%
Only in SHY
89 total- United States of America 1.96%
- United States of America 1.84%
- United States of America 1.71%
- United States of America 1.60%
- United States of America 1.60%
- United States of America 1.52%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.45%
- United States of America 1.43%
- United States of America 1.40%
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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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