ETF comparison
FLOT vs VMBS
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FLOT and VMBS would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VMBS is 12 bps cheaper than FLOT. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for FLOT.
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 FLOT vs VMBS.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in FLOT
545 total- EUROPEAN BK RECON & DEV 1.15%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 1.05%
- EUROPEAN BK RECON & DEV 0.95%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 0.89%
- EUROPEAN BK RECON & DEV 0.85%
- INTL FINANCE CORP 0.82%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 0.77%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 0.77%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 0.77%
- INTER-AMERICAN DEVEL BK 0.76%
Only in VMBS
5,112 total- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.52%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.36%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.32%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.31%
- Fannie Mae Pool 0.29%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.29%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.29%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.28%
- Freddie Mac Pool 0.27%
- Freddie Mac Pool 0.27%
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- FLOT vs MINT · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 10.2%
- FLOT vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 7.8%
- FLOT vs PULS · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF 6.1%
- FLOT vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 4.8%
- FLOT vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 3.6%
More comparisons with VMBS
- VMBS vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs GVI · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs ICSH · iShares Ultra Short Duration Bond Active ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs JAAA · Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs MINT · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.0%
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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