ETF comparison
BOND vs VGSH
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BOND and VGSH 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
VGSH is 51 bps cheaper than BOND. On a $100,000 position that's about $510/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 VGSH.
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 VGSH
91 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.24%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.40%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.35%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.31%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.30%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.29%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
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- BOND vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 6.2%
- BOND vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 5.6%
- BOND vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 5.2%
- BOND vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 4.3%
More comparisons with VGSH
- VGSH vs CGMU · Capital Group Municipal Income ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs CMF · iShares California Muni Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 0.0%
- VGSH vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs EBND · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH 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/.
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.