ETF comparison
NEAR vs SHY
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
10 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of NEAR and SHY would leave roughly 8.2% 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
SHY is 10 bps cheaper than NEAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for NEAR.
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 NEAR vs SHY.
Top shared holdings
10 shared in total| # | Holding | In NEAR | In SHY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 3.73% | 1.60% | 1.60% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 1.60% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 1.04% | 0.99% | 0.99% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 1.47% | 0.99% | 0.99% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 4.25% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 3.20% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.78% | 1.25% | 0.78% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.43% | 0.89% | 0.43% |
| 9 | United States Treasury | 0.35% | 1.12% | 0.35% |
| 10 | United States Treasury | 0.27% | 1.18% | 0.27% |
Only in NEAR
1,570 total- United States Treasury 14.14%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.48%
- APPLOVIN CORP 0.47%
- PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC 0.45%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 0.41%
- Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust 0.37%
- EQT CORP 0.36%
- AMAZON.COM INC 0.33%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.32%
- VIPER ENERGY PARTNERS LL 0.32%
Only in SHY
79 total- United States of America 1.96%
- United States of America 1.84%
- United States of America 1.71%
- United States of America 1.60%
- United States of America 1.52%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.45%
- United States of America 1.43%
- United States of America 1.40%
- United States of America 1.39%
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- NEAR vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 8.2%
- NEAR vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 7.6%
- NEAR vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 7.0%
- NEAR vs GVI · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 5.0%
- NEAR vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 4.1%
- NEAR vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 4.1%
More comparisons with SHY
- SHY vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 4.9%
- SHY vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 3.6%
- SHY vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 2.6%
- SHY vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 1.5%
- SHY vs GBIL · Goldman Sachs Access Treasury 0-1 Year ETF 1.4%
- SHY vs SHV · iShares 0–1 Year Treasury Bond ETF 1.0%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.