ETF comparison
FBND vs NEAR
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Fidelity Total Bond ETF · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF
Holdings overlap
302 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FBND and NEAR would leave roughly 3.2% 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
NEAR is 11 bps cheaper than FBND. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/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 FBND vs NEAR.
Top shared holdings
302 shared in total| # | Holding | In FBND | In NEAR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HCA INC | 0.15% | 0.17% | 0.15% |
| 2 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.14% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 3 | UST NOTES | 0.11% | 3.76% | 0.11% |
| 4 | BROADCOM INC | 0.19% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | UST NOTES | 0.07% | 1.83% | 0.07% |
| 6 | VICI PROPERTIES LP | 0.07% | 0.16% | 0.07% |
| 7 | BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION | 0.38% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 8 | BOEING CO | 0.09% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 9 | WELLS FARGO and CO | 0.07% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | BX TRUST 2025-ROIC | 0.13% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 11 | ALA TRUST 2025-OANA | 0.06% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | JPMORGAN CHASE and CO | 0.06% | 0.12% | 0.06% |
Only in FBND
4,328 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%
Only in NEAR
1,522 total- United States Treasury 12.04%
- United States Treasury 3.32%
- United States Treasury 2.83%
- United States Treasury 1.42%
- United States Treasury 1.30%
- United States Treasury 1.08%
- United States Treasury 0.70%
- United States Treasury 0.47%
- ECMC Group Student Loan Trust 0.44%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.43%
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- FBND vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 2.3%
- FBND vs SPMB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond Index ETF 1.7%
- FBND vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 0.9%
- FBND vs MINT · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.7%
More comparisons with NEAR
- NEAR vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 3.1%
- 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%
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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