ETF comparison
IUSB vs NEAR
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF
Holdings overlap
925 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IUSB and NEAR would leave roughly 4.8% 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
IUSB is 19 bps cheaper than NEAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $190/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 IUSB vs NEAR.
Top shared holdings
925 shared in total| # | Holding | In IUSB | In NEAR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.24% | 0.70% | 0.24% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.23% | 3.32% | 0.23% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.23% | 0.25% | 0.23% |
| 4 | United States of America | 0.21% | 3.76% | 0.21% |
| 5 | United States of America | 0.21% | 0.47% | 0.21% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.19% | 1.42% | 0.19% |
| 7 | United States of America | 0.18% | 1.30% | 0.18% |
| 8 | United States of America | 0.17% | 2.83% | 0.17% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.14% | 1.83% | 0.14% |
| 10 | United States of America | 0.12% | 0.31% | 0.12% |
| 11 | Bank of America Corp. | 0.02% | 0.07% | 0.02% |
| 12 | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 0.02% | 0.13% | 0.02% |
Only in IUSB
17,119 total- Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. 0.41%
- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.36%
- United States of America 0.35%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.33%
- United States of America 0.33%
Only in NEAR
899 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%
- Curzon Mortgages PLC 0.22%
- CAISSE D'AMORT DETTE SOC 0.22%
- SMB Private Education Loan Trust 0.22%
- Vita Scientia 0.21%
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- IUSB vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 4.1%
- IUSB vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 3.7%
- IUSB vs SPMB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond Index ETF 3.6%
- IUSB vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 3.2%
- IUSB vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 1.8%
More comparisons with NEAR
- 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%
- NEAR vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond Index ETF 3.0%
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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