ETF comparison
BLV vs BND
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,782 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BLV and BND would leave roughly 18.5% 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
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 BLV vs BND.
Top shared holdings
2,782 shared in total| # | Holding | In BLV | In BND | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.97% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.13% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.08% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.13% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.10% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.15% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.14% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.08% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.96% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.17% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.80% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.79% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
Only in BLV
201 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.23%
- Charter Communications Operating LLC / Charter Communications Operating Capital 0.06%
- ConocoPhillips 0.04%
- Vodafone Group PLC 0.04%
- Rio Tinto Finance USA Ltd 0.03%
- ConocoPhillips Co 0.03%
- Verizon Communications Inc 0.03%
- Microsoft Corp 0.03%
- Verizon Communications Inc 0.03%
- NBCUniversal Media LLC 0.03%
Only in BND
14,614 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.47%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.40%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with BLV
- BLV vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 17.2%
- BLV vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF 17.1%
- BLV vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 16.9%
- BLV vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 16.0%
- BLV vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 14.8%
- BLV vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 14.3%
More comparisons with BND
- BND vs BIV · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 18.4%
- 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%
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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