ETF comparison
BND vs MBB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares MBS ETF
Holdings overlap
1,364 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and MBB would leave roughly 5.4% 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
BND is 1 bps cheaper than MBB. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for MBB.
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 BND vs MBB.
Top shared holdings
1,364 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In MBB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fannie Mae Pool | 0.06% | 0.11% | 0.06% |
| 2 | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.06% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 3 | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.05% | 0.14% | 0.05% |
| 4 | Fannie Mae Pool | 0.05% | 0.28% | 0.05% |
| 5 | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.05% | 0.29% | 0.05% |
| 6 | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.05% | 0.40% | 0.05% |
| 7 | Fannie Mae Pool | 0.06% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 8 | Fannie Mae Pool | 0.05% | 0.11% | 0.05% |
| 9 | Freddie Mac Pool | 0.04% | 0.21% | 0.04% |
| 10 | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.04% | 0.51% | 0.04% |
| 11 | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.04% | 0.09% | 0.04% |
| 12 | Freddie Mac Pool | 0.04% | 0.98% | 0.04% |
Only in BND
16,032 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.47%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.40%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
Only in MBB
9,845 total- Government National Mortgage Association 1.05%
- UMBS, TBA 0.85%
- UMBS, TBA 0.70%
- Government National Mortgage Association 0.53%
- Government National Mortgage Association 0.49%
- Fannie Mae 0.49%
- Government National Mortgage Association 0.46%
- Fannie Mae 0.41%
- Fannie Mae 0.41%
- UMBS, TBA 0.39%
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- BND vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 3.1%
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- BND vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 1.8%
More comparisons with MBB
- MBB vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 5.2%
- MBB vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 3.2%
- MBB vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 2.3%
- MBB vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 1.6%
- MBB vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 0.9%
- MBB vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 0.9%
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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