ETF comparison
MINT vs VMBS
Both US Aggregate Bond.
PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MINT 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 33 bps cheaper than MINT. On a $100,000 position that's about $330/yr more in fees for MINT.
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 MINT vs VMBS.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in MINT
1,014 total- United States Treasury 6.21%
- Fannie Mae 1.12%
- Freddie Mac 0.99%
- SUMISHO AIR LEASE CORP 0.87%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.77%
- AERCAP IRELAND CAP/GLOBA 0.77%
- Trillium Credit Card Trust II 0.71%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 0.70%
- HCA Inc 0.63%
- Nissan Auto Lease Trust 0.63%
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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- MINT vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 2.7%
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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