ETF comparison
IUSB vs VGSH
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
81 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IUSB and VGSH would leave roughly 12.5% 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
VGSH is 3 bps cheaper than IUSB. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for IUSB.
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 IUSB vs VGSH.
Top shared holdings
81 shared in total| # | Holding | In IUSB | In VGSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.30% | 1.18% | 0.30% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.29% | 1.25% | 0.29% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.29% | 0.85% | 0.29% |
| 4 | United States of America | 0.27% | 1.18% | 0.27% |
| 5 | United States of America | 0.27% | 1.16% | 0.27% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.24% | 1.23% | 0.24% |
| 7 | United States of America | 0.23% | 1.10% | 0.23% |
| 8 | United States of America | 0.23% | 1.17% | 0.23% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.23% | 1.10% | 0.23% |
| 10 | United States of America | 0.23% | 1.19% | 0.23% |
| 11 | United States of America | 0.23% | 2.24% | 0.23% |
| 12 | United States of America | 0.22% | 1.18% | 0.22% |
Only in IUSB
17,963 total- Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. 0.41%
- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.36%
- United States of America 0.35%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.33%
- United States of America 0.33%
Only in VGSH
10 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.29%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.22%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.20%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.11%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.05%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.92%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.82%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.70%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.59%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with IUSB
- IUSB vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 12.4%
- IUSB vs MBB · iShares MBS ETF 9.0%
- IUSB vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 7.5%
- IUSB vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 7.3%
- IUSB vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 7.2%
- IUSB vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 4.7%
More comparisons with VGSH
- VGSH vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 8.2%
- VGSH vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 5.7%
- VGSH vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 3.9%
- VGSH vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 2.6%
- VGSH vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 2.5%
- VGSH vs SHV · iShares 0–1 Year Treasury Bond ETF 1.9%
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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