ETF comparison
BLV vs VGLT
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Long).
Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
97 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BLV and VGLT would leave roughly 51.2% 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 BLV vs VGLT.
Top shared holdings
97 shared in total| # | Holding | In BLV | In VGLT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.17% | 2.21% | 1.17% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.15% | 2.21% | 1.15% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.14% | 2.13% | 1.14% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.13% | 2.17% | 1.13% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.13% | 2.17% | 1.13% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.10% | 2.14% | 1.10% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.08% | 2.04% | 1.08% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.08% | 2.04% | 1.08% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.06% | 2.17% | 1.06% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.97% | 2.22% | 0.97% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.96% | 1.83% | 0.96% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.86% | 1.64% | 0.86% |
Only in BLV
2,886 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.68%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.49%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.24%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.16%
- CVS Health Corp 0.13%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.12%
- Amazon.com Inc 0.11%
- Bank of America Corp 0.11%
- Meta Platforms Inc 0.10%
- Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.10%
Only in VGLT
0 totalEvery VGLT position is also held by BLV.
Related comparisons
More comparisons with BLV
- BLV vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 28.3%
- BLV vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 18.5%
- 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%
More comparisons with VGLT
- VGLT vs TLH · iShares 10-20 Year Treasury Bond ETF 41.9%
- VGLT vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 16.5%
- VGLT vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 12.0%
- VGLT vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 10.0%
- VGLT vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF 9.6%
- VGLT vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 9.3%
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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