ETF comparison
FBND vs VGSH
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Fidelity Total Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
8 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FBND and VGSH would leave roughly 0.4% 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
VGSH 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 FBND vs VGSH.
Top shared holdings
8 shared in total| # | Holding | In FBND | In VGSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UST NOTES | 0.11% | 1.16% | 0.11% |
| 2 | UST NOTES | 0.10% | 1.16% | 0.10% |
| 3 | UST NOTES | 0.07% | 1.13% | 0.07% |
| 4 | UST NOTES | 0.05% | 1.02% | 0.05% |
| 5 | UST NOTES | 0.01% | 0.67% | 0.01% |
| 6 | UST NOTES | 0.01% | 1.06% | 0.01% |
| 7 | UST NOTES | 0.01% | 0.99% | 0.01% |
| 8 | UST NOTES | 0.01% | 1.12% | 0.01% |
Only in FBND
4,622 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 VGSH
83 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.44%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.42%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.38%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.36%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.35%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.33%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.32%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.31%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.30%
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- VGSH vs ANGL · VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs BAB · Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs BIL · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF 0.0%
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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