ETF comparison
MBB vs SHY
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of MBB and SHY would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
MBB is 11 bps cheaper than SHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/yr more in fees for SHY.
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 MBB vs SHY.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in MBB
11,209 total- Government National Mortgage Association 1.05%
- Freddie Mac 0.98%
- UMBS, TBA 0.85%
- UMBS, TBA 0.70%
- Government National Mortgage Association 0.53%
- Government National Mortgage Association 0.51%
- Government National Mortgage Association 0.51%
- Government National Mortgage Association 0.50%
- Government National Mortgage Association 0.49%
- Fannie Mae 0.49%
Only in SHY
90 total- United States of America 1.97%
- United States of America 1.71%
- United States of America 1.61%
- United States of America 1.51%
- United States of America 1.49%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.47%
- United States of America 1.40%
- United States of America 1.39%
- United States of America 1.39%
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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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