ETF comparison
NEAR vs VUSB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
84 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of NEAR and VUSB would leave roughly 4.1% 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 15 bps cheaper than NEAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/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 VUSB.
Top shared holdings
84 shared in total| # | Holding | In NEAR | In VUSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.20% | 0.37% | 0.20% |
| 2 | BAT CAPITAL CORP | 0.26% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 3 | RTX CORP | 0.18% | 0.20% | 0.18% |
| 4 | FIDELITY NATL INFO SERV | 0.25% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 5 | MORGAN STANLEY PVT BANK | 0.17% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 6 | CITIGROUP INC | 0.22% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 7 | CITIGROUP INC | 0.48% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 8 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.11% | 0.28% | 0.11% |
| 9 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.17% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 10 | NEXTERA ENERGY CAPITAL | 0.11% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.10% | 0.12% | 0.10% |
| 12 | CITIGROUP INC | 0.11% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
Only in NEAR
1,496 total- United States Treasury 14.14%
- United States Treasury 4.25%
- United States Treasury 3.73%
- United States Treasury 3.20%
- United States Treasury 1.60%
- United States Treasury 1.47%
- United States Treasury 1.04%
- United States Treasury 0.78%
- APPLOVIN CORP 0.47%
- PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC 0.45%
Only in VUSB
1,197 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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- NEAR vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 3.1%
- NEAR vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 3.0%
- NEAR vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF 3.0%
More comparisons with VUSB
- 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%
- VUSB vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 2.1%
- VUSB vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 2.0%
- VUSB vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 1.8%
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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