ETF comparison
FLOT vs VUSB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
70 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FLOT and VUSB would leave roughly 7.8% 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
VUSB is 5 bps cheaper than FLOT. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/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 VUSB.
Top shared holdings
70 shared in total| # | Holding | In FLOT | In VUSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AMERICAN HONDA FINANCE | 0.27% | 0.34% | 0.27% |
| 2 | UBS GROUP AG | 0.25% | 0.31% | 0.25% |
| 3 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | 0.28% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.19% | 0.22% | 0.19% |
| 5 | HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK | 0.19% | 0.28% | 0.19% |
| 6 | SUMITOMO MITSUI TR BK LT | 0.20% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 7 | LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC | 0.25% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 8 | TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORP | 0.18% | 0.37% | 0.18% |
| 9 | MORGAN STANLEY BANK NA | 0.17% | 0.19% | 0.17% |
| 10 | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.23% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 11 | ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | 0.16% | 0.22% | 0.16% |
| 12 | AMERICAN EXPRESS CO | 0.20% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
Only in FLOT
475 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 VUSB
1,211 total- United States Treasury Bill 4.19%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.67%
- PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The 0.58%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.52%
- Regions Bank/Birmingham AL 0.51%
- US Bancorp 0.50%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 0.49%
- Truist Bank 0.44%
- Westlake Flooring Master Trust 0.44%
- DLLAD 2024-1 LLC 0.43%
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- FLOT vs ICSH · iShares Ultra Short Duration Bond Active ETF 3.4%
- FLOT vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 0.3%
- FLOT vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.0%
More comparisons with VUSB
- VUSB vs PULS · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF 5.4%
- VUSB vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 4.4%
- VUSB vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 4.1%
- VUSB vs ICSH · iShares Ultra Short Duration Bond Active ETF 4.0%
- VUSB vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 3.9%
- VUSB vs GVI · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 3.6%
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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