ETF comparison
GVI vs NEAR
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF
Holdings overlap
254 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GVI and NEAR would leave roughly 5.0% 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
GVI is 5 bps cheaper than NEAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/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 GVI vs NEAR.
Top shared holdings
254 shared in total| # | Holding | In GVI | In NEAR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.40% | 2.83% | 0.40% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.32% | 0.70% | 0.32% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.49% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 0.30% | 1.30% | 0.30% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.27% | 1.83% | 0.27% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.27% | 1.42% | 0.27% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.26% | 3.32% | 0.26% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.25% | 3.76% | 0.25% |
| 9 | United States Treasury | 0.57% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 10 | United States Treasury | 0.25% | 0.47% | 0.25% |
| 11 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.04% | 0.13% | 0.04% |
| 12 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.03% | 0.07% | 0.03% |
Only in GVI
5,978 total- United States Treasury 0.74%
- United States Treasury 0.74%
- United States Treasury 0.73%
- United States Treasury 0.73%
- United States Treasury 0.72%
- United States Treasury 0.72%
- United States Treasury 0.71%
- United States Treasury 0.69%
- United States Treasury 0.69%
- United States Treasury 0.68%
Only in NEAR
1,570 total- United States Treasury 12.04%
- United States Treasury 1.08%
- ECMC Group Student Loan Trust 0.44%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.43%
- Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust 0.33%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.29%
- REGIONS BANKS/BIRMGHM AL 0.25%
- UBER TECHNOLOGIES INC 0.23%
- Curzon Mortgages PLC 0.22%
- CAISSE D'AMORT DETTE SOC 0.22%
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- GVI vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 1.6%
- GVI vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 1.5%
- GVI vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 1.3%
- GVI vs ICSH · iShares Ultra Short Duration Bond Active ETF 0.8%
- GVI vs PULS · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF 0.7%
More comparisons with NEAR
- NEAR vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 4.8%
- NEAR vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 4.0%
- NEAR vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 3.8%
- NEAR vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 3.3%
- NEAR vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 3.2%
- NEAR vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 3.1%
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.