ETF comparison
BIV vs NEAR
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF
Holdings overlap
8 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BIV and NEAR would leave roughly 0.1% 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
BIV is 22 bps cheaper than NEAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $220/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 BIV vs NEAR.
Top shared holdings
8 shared in total| # | Holding | In BIV | In NEAR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Veralto Corp | 0.01% | 0.11% | 0.01% |
| 2 | Pacific Gas and Electric Co | 0.01% | 0.16% | 0.01% |
| 3 | Cheniere Energy Partners LP | 0.03% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 4 | Bank of America Corp | 0.01% | 0.03% | 0.01% |
| 5 | Pilgrim's Pride Corp | 0.01% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 6 | Bank of America Corp | 0.00% | 0.10% | 0.00% |
| 7 | Spire Inc | 0.00% | 0.07% | 0.00% |
| 8 | Pilgrim's Pride Corp | 0.01% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in BIV
2,347 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.14%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.14%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.13%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.08%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.08%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.02%
Only in NEAR
1,816 total- United States Treasury 12.04%
- United States Treasury 3.76%
- United States Treasury 3.32%
- United States Treasury 2.83%
- United States Treasury 1.83%
- United States Treasury 1.42%
- United States Treasury 1.30%
- United States Treasury 1.08%
- United States Treasury 0.70%
- United States Treasury 0.47%
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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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