ETF comparison
BND vs NEAR
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF
Holdings overlap
242 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and NEAR would leave roughly 3.1% 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
BND 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 BND vs NEAR.
Top shared holdings
242 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In NEAR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.23% | 0.31% | 0.23% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.21% | 0.70% | 0.21% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.19% | 0.47% | 0.19% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.19% | 1.83% | 0.19% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.18% | 1.08% | 0.18% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.17% | 1.42% | 0.17% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.17% | 3.32% | 0.17% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.16% | 1.30% | 0.16% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.14% | 2.83% | 0.14% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.12% | 0.25% | 0.12% |
| 11 | T-Mobile USA Inc | 0.04% | 0.13% | 0.04% |
| 12 | Morgan Stanley Private Bank NA | 0.03% | 0.28% | 0.03% |
Only in BND
17,154 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 NEAR
1,582 total- United States Treasury 12.04%
- United States Treasury 3.76%
- ECMC Group Student Loan Trust 0.44%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.43%
- AMAZON.COM INC 0.38%
- Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust 0.33%
- EQT CORP 0.32%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.29%
- EQUINIX EU 2 FINANCING C 0.24%
- UBER TECHNOLOGIES INC 0.23%
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- BND vs VWOB · Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 1.0%
- BND vs EMB · iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF 0.9%
- BND vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 0.9%
More comparisons with NEAR
- NEAR vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond Index ETF 3.0%
- NEAR vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 3.0%
- NEAR vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 2.9%
- NEAR vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 2.8%
- NEAR vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 2.6%
- NEAR vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 2.4%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.