ETF comparison
BSV vs VUSB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
351 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BSV and VUSB would leave roughly 4.4% 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 7 bps cheaper than VUSB. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for VUSB.
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 VUSB.
Top shared holdings
351 shared in total| # | Holding | In BSV | In VUSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.75% | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.36% | 0.52% | 0.36% |
| 3 | Bank of America Corp | 0.06% | 0.08% | 0.06% |
| 4 | Bank of America Corp | 0.05% | 0.37% | 0.05% |
| 5 | Amgen Inc | 0.04% | 0.16% | 0.04% |
| 6 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.04% | 0.22% | 0.04% |
| 7 | NatWest Group PLC | 0.03% | 0.30% | 0.03% |
| 8 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.03% | 0.08% | 0.03% |
| 9 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc | 0.03% | 0.06% | 0.03% |
| 10 | Bank of America Corp | 0.03% | 0.06% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Cigna Group/The | 0.03% | 0.07% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Salesforce Inc | 0.03% | 0.19% | 0.03% |
Only in BSV
2,834 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 VUSB
930 total- United States Treasury Bill 4.19%
- PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The 0.58%
- Westlake Flooring Master Trust 0.44%
- DLLAD 2024-1 LLC 0.43%
- UBS Group AG 0.41%
- Bank of Montreal 0.40%
- Toyota Motor Credit Corp 0.37%
- RKTL 2026-2 0.37%
- PFS Financing Corp 0.36%
- NTT Finance Corp 0.35%
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More comparisons with VUSB
- VUSB vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 4.1%
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- VUSB vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 3.9%
- VUSB vs GVI · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 3.6%
- VUSB vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 2.1%
- VUSB vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 2.0%
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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