ETF comparison
BSV vs MINT
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund
Holdings overlap
28 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BSV and MINT would leave roughly 1.0% 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
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Cost difference
BSV is 33 bps cheaper than MINT. On a $100,000 position that's about $330/yr more in fees for MINT.
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 MINT.
Top shared holdings
28 shared in total| # | Holding | In BSV | In MINT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.78% | 6.21% | 0.78% |
| 2 | Pacific Gas and Electric Co | 0.03% | 0.05% | 0.03% |
| 3 | US Bancorp | 0.02% | 0.05% | 0.02% |
| 4 | Banco Santander SA | 0.02% | 0.04% | 0.02% |
| 5 | Banco Santander SA | 0.02% | 0.27% | 0.02% |
| 6 | FirstEnergy Corp | 0.01% | 0.17% | 0.01% |
| 7 | BAT Capital Corp | 0.01% | 0.31% | 0.01% |
| 8 | Ford Motor Credit Co LLC | 0.01% | 0.04% | 0.01% |
| 9 | NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc | 0.01% | 0.11% | 0.01% |
| 10 | Pacific Gas and Electric Co | 0.01% | 0.33% | 0.01% |
| 11 | Amphenol Corp | 0.01% | 0.02% | 0.01% |
| 12 | NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc | 0.02% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in BSV
3,157 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 0.77%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.77%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%
Only in MINT
986 total- Fannie Mae 1.12%
- Freddie Mac 0.99%
- SUMISHO AIR LEASE CORP 0.87%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.77%
- AERCAP IRELAND CAP/GLOBA 0.77%
- Trillium Credit Card Trust II 0.71%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 0.70%
- HCA Inc 0.63%
- Nissan Auto Lease Trust 0.63%
- SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO 0.63%
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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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