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BSV vs GVI

Both US Aggregate Bond.

Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
58.3 %

2,975 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BSV and GVI would leave roughly 58.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BSV unmatched 40.3% Shared 58.3% GVI unmatched 40.6%

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 BSV only
210 positions
Shared
2,975 positions
In GVI only
3,202 positions

Side by side

BSV

Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Aggregate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$69.54B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
4.10%
Top-10 conc.
8.4%
GVI

iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF

iShares · US Aggregate Bond

78 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.20%
Net assets
$3.74B
TTM yield
3.74%
Top-10 conc.
7.4%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
80
52
Tax efficiency
53
100
Liquidity
81
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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BSV sub-score GVI

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

Cost difference

BSV is 17 bps cheaper than GVI. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for GVI.

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 BSV vs GVI.

Top shared holdings

2,975 shared in total
# Holding In BSV In GVI Overlap
1 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.88% 0.63% 0.63%
2 United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.12% 0.61% 0.61%
3 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.70% 0.56% 0.56%
4 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.56% 0.55% 0.55%
5 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.55% 0.55% 0.55%
6 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.70% 0.54% 0.54%
7 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.70% 0.54% 0.54%
8 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.55% 0.54% 0.54%
9 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.56% 0.53% 0.53%
10 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.77% 0.52% 0.52%
11 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.89% 0.51% 0.51%
12 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75% 0.50% 0.50%

Only in BSV

210 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.78%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.67%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.33%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.30%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.29%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.26%
  • Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau 0.05%
  • Federal Home Loan Banks 0.05%
  • Province of British Columbia Canada 0.04%

Only in GVI

3,202 total
  • United States Treasury 0.79%
  • United States Treasury 0.77%
  • United States Treasury 0.76%
  • United States Treasury 0.76%
  • United States Treasury 0.76%
  • United States Treasury 0.74%
  • United States Treasury 0.73%
  • United States Treasury 0.70%
  • United States Treasury 0.69%
  • United States Treasury 0.60%

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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/.

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.