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BLV vs GVI

Both US Aggregate Bond.

Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.3 %

21 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BLV and GVI would leave roughly 0.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BLV unmatched 98.5% Shared 0.3% GVI unmatched 98.4%

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.

In BLV only
2,962 positions
Shared
21 positions
In GVI only
6,211 positions

Side by side

BLV

Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Aggregate Bond

88 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$8.32B
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
5.10%
Top-10 conc.
11.0%
GVI

iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF

iShares · US Aggregate Bond

78 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.20%
Net assets
$3.86B
TTM yield
3.43%
Top-10 conc.
7.2%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
80
50
Tax efficiency
54
97
Liquidity
82
99
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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BLV sub-score GVI

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

BLV is 17 bps cheaper than GVI. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for GVI.

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 BLV vs GVI.

Top shared holdings

21 shared in total
# Holding In BLV In GVI Overlap
1 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.24% 0.72% 0.24%
2 Baker Hughes Holdings LLC / Baker Hughes Co-Obligor Inc 0.03% 0.01% 0.01%
3 NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc 0.02% 0.01% 0.01%
4 Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.01% 0.01% 0.01%
5 Nomura Holdings Inc 0.01% 0.01% 0.01%
6 Comcast Corp 0.02% 0.00% 0.00%
7 Prologis LP 0.01% 0.00% 0.00%
8 Aetna Inc 0.01% 0.00% 0.00%
9 Canadian National Railway Co 0.01% 0.00% 0.00%
10 Cheniere Energy Inc 0.01% 0.00% 0.00%
11 Western Midstream Operating LP 0.01% 0.00% 0.00%
12 PayPal Holdings Inc 0.01% 0.00% 0.00%

Only in BLV

2,962 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.17%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.15%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.14%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.13%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.13%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.10%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.08%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.08%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.06%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.97%

Only in GVI

6,211 total
  • United States Treasury 0.74%
  • United States Treasury 0.74%
  • United States Treasury 0.73%
  • United States Treasury 0.73%
  • United States Treasury 0.72%
  • United States Treasury 0.71%
  • United States Treasury 0.69%
  • United States Treasury 0.69%
  • United States Treasury 0.68%
  • United States Treasury 0.66%

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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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