ETF comparison
BIV vs BND
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,108 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BIV and BND would leave roughly 18.4% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 BIV vs BND.
Top shared holdings
2,108 shared in total| # | Holding | In BIV | In BND | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.13% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.08% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.08% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.14% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.02% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.14% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.04% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.10% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.84% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.04% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.65% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.70% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
Only in BIV
247 total- Morgan Stanley 0.06%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.06%
- Citigroup Inc 0.05%
- MPLX LP 0.05%
- Province of Quebec Canada 0.05%
- Morgan Stanley 0.04%
- PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The 0.04%
- Devon Energy Corp 0.04%
- Comcast Corp 0.03%
- Oracle Corp 0.03%
Only in BND
15,288 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.47%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.34%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.33%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.32%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.31%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.31%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.30%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.28%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.27%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with BIV
- BIV vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 17.0%
- BIV vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF 16.8%
- BIV vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 16.7%
- BIV vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 15.4%
- BIV vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.4%
- BIV vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 10.0%
More comparisons with BND
- BND vs VTC · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares 17.8%
- BND vs SCHO · Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 17.2%
- BND vs SPTS · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Treasury ETF 17.1%
- BND vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 16.9%
- BND vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 16.6%
- BND vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 16.1%
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/.
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