ETF comparison
SHY vs VMBS
US Treasury (Short) vs US Aggregate Bond.
iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHY 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 12 bps cheaper than SHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for SHY.
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 SHY vs VMBS.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in SHY
89 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 1.60%
- 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%
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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- SHY vs ZROZ · PIMCO 25+ Year Zero Coupon U.S. Treasury Index Exchange-Traded Fund 0.0%
- SHY vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 87.7%
- SHY vs SCHO · Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 81.4%
More comparisons with VMBS
- VMBS vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VMBS vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VMBS vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VMBS vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 0.0%
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/.
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