ETF comparison
BSV vs NEAR
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF
Holdings overlap
239 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BSV and NEAR would leave roughly 7.0% 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 22 bps cheaper than NEAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $220/yr more in fees for NEAR.
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 NEAR.
Top shared holdings
239 shared in total| # | Holding | In BSV | In NEAR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.48% | 0.78% | 0.48% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.46% | 1.04% | 0.46% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.42% | 3.73% | 0.42% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.42% | 1.60% | 0.42% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 1.47% | 0.41% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.36% | 3.20% | 0.36% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.36% | 0.43% | 0.36% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.46% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.38% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.20% | 4.25% | 0.20% |
| 11 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.08% | 0.20% | 0.08% |
| 12 | Bank of America Corp | 0.06% | 0.13% | 0.06% |
Only in BSV
2,946 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 NEAR
1,341 total- United States Treasury 14.14%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.48%
- Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust 0.37%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.32%
- UBER TECHNOLOGIES INC 0.26%
- SMB Private Education Loan Trust 0.26%
- Curzon Mortgages PLC 0.25%
- CAISSE D'AMORT DETTE SOC 0.25%
- Freddie Mac 0.25%
- Vita Scientia 0.25%
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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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