ETF comparison
BSV vs ICSH
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares Ultra Short Duration Bond Active ETF
Holdings overlap
48 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BSV and ICSH would leave roughly 1.3% 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
BSV is 5 bps cheaper than ICSH. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for ICSH.
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 ICSH.
Top shared holdings
48 shared in total| # | Holding | In BSV | In ICSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.55% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.67% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 3 | Salesforce Inc | 0.03% | 0.65% | 0.03% |
| 4 | Goldman Sachs Bank USA/New York NY | 0.03% | 0.47% | 0.03% |
| 5 | Bank of America Corp | 0.03% | 0.10% | 0.03% |
| 6 | Citibank NA | 0.02% | 0.23% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Amazon.com Inc | 0.02% | 0.14% | 0.02% |
| 8 | WEC Energy Group Inc | 0.02% | 0.26% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.02% | 0.21% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Morgan Stanley Private Bank NA | 0.02% | 0.12% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.02% | 0.23% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Morgan Stanley Private Bank NA | 0.01% | 0.65% | 0.01% |
Only in BSV
3,137 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.12%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.89%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.88%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.81%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.80%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.79%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.78%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.77%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.77%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%
Only in ICSH
320 total- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria/New York NY 0.91%
- BPCE SA 0.91%
- Marubeni Finance America LLC 0.77%
- Cooperatieve Rabobank UA/NY 0.74%
- Svenska Handelsbanken AB 0.72%
- NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL GLBL 0.70%
- MIZUHO BK LTD NEW YORK BRH INS 0.70%
- CDP Financial Inc 0.68%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Trust NY 0.67%
- PACIFIC LIFE GF II 0.66%
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More comparisons with ICSH
- ICSH vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 1.0%
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- ICSH vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.7%
- ICSH vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.7%
- ICSH vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.7%
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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