ETF comparison
BSV vs FBND
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Fidelity Total Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
184 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BSV and FBND would leave roughly 2.3% 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
BSV is 33 bps cheaper than FBND. On a $100,000 position that's about $330/yr more in fees for FBND.
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 BSV vs FBND.
Top shared holdings
184 shared in total| # | Holding | In BSV | In FBND | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.36% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.31% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.20% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.46% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.37% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 6 | T-Mobile USA Inc | 0.05% | 0.14% | 0.05% |
| 7 | CVS Health Corp | 0.04% | 0.10% | 0.04% |
| 8 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.05% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 9 | AerCap Ireland Capital DAC / AerCap Global Aviation Trust | 0.06% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 10 | Boeing Co/The | 0.04% | 0.09% | 0.04% |
| 11 | Space Exploration Technologies Corp | 0.03% | 0.13% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Morgan Stanley | 0.05% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in BSV
3,001 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.12%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.89%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.81%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.80%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.79%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.78%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.77%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%
Only in FBND
4,446 total- Fidelity Revere Street Trust 3.16%
- UST NOTES 2.73%
- UST NOTES 2.04%
- FNMA/FHLG TBA ISSUER 1.99%
- UST NOTES 1.97%
- UNITED STATES TREASURY BOND 1.37%
- UNITED STATES TREASURY BOND 1.36%
- UST NOTES 1.36%
- GNMA II GTD PASS THRU CTF MULTIPLE ISSUER 1.28%
- FNMA/FHLG TBA ISSUER 1.25%
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- FBND vs MINT · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.7%
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- FBND vs PAAA · PGIM AAA CLO ETF 0.5%
- FBND vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 0.5%
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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