ETF comparison
PAAA vs SHY
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PAAA 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
SHY is 4 bps cheaper than PAAA. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for PAAA.
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 PAAA vs SHY.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in PAAA
311 total- CBAM 2017-2 LTD 1.58%
- Regatta XXVII Funding Ltd / Regatta XXVII Funding LLC 1.29%
- BENEFIT STREET PARTNERS CLO XII-B LTD 1.21%
- GOLDENTREE LOAN MANAGEMENT US CLO 31 LTD 1.21%
- MAGNETITE XL LTD 1.13%
- OCP CLO LTD 1.12%
- BATTALION CLO XXIV LTD 1.09%
- AGL CORE CLO 1.06%
- REGATTA XXVI FUNDING LTD 1.01%
- BALBOA BAY LOAN FUNDING 2024-1 LTD 1.01%
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/.
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.