ETF comparison
BOND vs SHY
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BOND 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
SHY is 39 bps cheaper than BOND. On a $100,000 position that's about $390/yr more in fees for BOND.
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 BOND vs SHY.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in BOND
1,519 total- UMBS, TBA 5.56%
- PIMCO Mortgage-Backed Securities Active Exchange-Traded Fund 4.07%
- UMBS, TBA 3.46%
- United States Treasury 3.39%
- UMBS, TBA 2.73%
- United States Treasury 2.57%
- UMBS, TBA 2.54%
- UMBS, TBA 2.27%
- United States Treasury 1.94%
- United States Treasury 1.93%
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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More comparisons with SHY
- SHY vs CGMU · Capital Group Municipal Income ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs CMF · iShares California Muni Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 0.0%
- SHY vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs EBND · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs EDV · Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
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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