ETF comparison
BOND vs MBB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Holdings overlap
18 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BOND and MBB would leave roughly 0.8% 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
MBB is 47 bps cheaper than BOND. On a $100,000 position that's about $470/yr more in fees for BOND.
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 BOND vs MBB.
Top shared holdings
18 shared in total| # | Holding | In BOND | In MBB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freddie Mac | 0.31% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 2 | UMBS, TBA | 2.54% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 3 | Fannie Mae | 0.57% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 4 | Freddie Mac | 0.73% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 5 | Fannie Mae | 0.30% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 6 | Fannie Mae | 0.76% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 7 | UMBS, TBA | 0.96% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 8 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.01% | 0.49% | 0.01% |
| 9 | Freddie Mac | 0.31% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 10 | Freddie Mac | 0.06% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 11 | Freddie Mac | 0.20% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 12 | Freddie Mac | 0.01% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in BOND
1,501 total- UMBS, TBA 5.56%
- PIMCO Mortgage-Backed Securities Active Exchange-Traded Fund 4.07%
- UMBS, TBA 3.46%
- United States Treasury 3.39%
- UMBS, TBA 2.73%
- United States Treasury 2.57%
- UMBS, TBA 2.27%
- United States Treasury 1.94%
- United States Treasury 1.93%
- Freddie Mac 1.88%
Only in MBB
11,191 total- Government National Mortgage Association 1.05%
- Freddie Mac 0.98%
- UMBS, TBA 0.85%
- UMBS, TBA 0.70%
- Government National Mortgage Association 0.53%
- Government National Mortgage Association 0.51%
- Government National Mortgage Association 0.51%
- Government National Mortgage Association 0.50%
- Fannie Mae 0.49%
- Government National Mortgage Association 0.48%
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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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