ETF comparison
VMBS vs VUSB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VMBS and VUSB 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
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Cost difference
VMBS is 7 bps cheaper than VUSB. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for VUSB.
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 VMBS vs VUSB.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
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%
Only in VUSB
1,281 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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- VMBS vs SPMB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond ETF 21.2%
- VMBS vs MBB · iShares MBS ETF 17.2%
- VMBS vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 15.5%
- VMBS vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 10.9%
- VMBS vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF 9.7%
- VMBS vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 7.7%
More comparisons with VUSB
- VUSB vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VUSB vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 10.4%
- VUSB vs MINT · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 8.2%
- VUSB vs FLOT · iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF 7.8%
- VUSB vs PULS · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF 5.4%
- VUSB vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 4.4%
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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