ETF comparison
BSV vs SCHZ
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
2,992 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BSV and SCHZ would leave roughly 34.9% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 SCHZ.
Top shared holdings
2,992 shared in total| # | Holding | In BSV | In SCHZ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.12% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.70% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.88% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.77% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.79% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.89% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.78% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.67% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.75% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.45% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.75% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.70% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
Only in BSV
193 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.26%
- Smurfit Kappa Treasury ULC 0.04%
- Comcast Corp 0.04%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.03%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.03%
- Federal Home Loan Banks 0.03%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.03%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.03%
- Citibank NA 0.02%
- Synchrony Bank 0.02%
Only in SCHZ
9,334 total- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with BSV
- BSV vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 33.9%
- BSV vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 30.2%
- BSV vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 28.9%
- BSV vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 22.3%
- BSV vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 9.0%
- BSV vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 7.0%
More comparisons with SCHZ
- SCHZ vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 31.2%
- SCHZ vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 23.7%
- SCHZ vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 23.3%
- SCHZ vs VGIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 19.8%
- SCHZ vs SCHR · Schwab Intermediate-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 19.6%
- SCHZ vs SPTI · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Treasury ETF 19.6%
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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