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BND vs BOND

Both US Aggregate Bond.

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
2.3 %

285 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and BOND would leave roughly 2.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BND unmatched 96.7% Shared 2.3% BOND unmatched 111.0%

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.

In BND only
17,111 positions
Shared
285 positions
In BOND only
1,234 positions

Side by side

BND

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Aggregate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$389.05B
whole fund, 6 share classes
TTM yield
4.13%
Top-10 conc.
4.1%
BOND

PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund

PIMCO · US Aggregate Bond

62 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.54%
Net assets
$8.54B
TTM yield
5.37%
Top-10 conc.
35.3%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
46
52
Tax efficiency
50
100
Liquidity
97
100
Concentration
64
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Tracking quality
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BND sub-score BOND

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

BND is 51 bps cheaper than BOND. On a $100,000 position that's about $510/yr more in fees for BOND.

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 BND vs BOND.

Top shared holdings

285 shared in total
# Holding In BND In BOND Overlap
1 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.21% 0.38% 0.21%
2 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.14% 0.73% 0.14%
3 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.13% 1.32% 0.13%
4 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.12% 3.39% 0.12%
5 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.10% 2.57% 0.10%
6 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.24% 0.09% 0.09%
7 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.06% 1.94% 0.06%
8 Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.05% 2.73% 0.05%
9 Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.04% 1.58% 0.04%
10 Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.04% 0.28% 0.04%
11 Citigroup Inc 0.02% 0.03% 0.02%
12 Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.02% 0.23% 0.02%

Only in BND

17,111 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%

Only in BOND

1,234 total
  • PIMCO Mortgage-Backed Securities Active Exchange-Traded Fund 4.07%
  • UMBS, TBA 2.54%
  • United States Treasury 1.93%
  • Freddie Mac 1.88%
  • Freddie Mac 1.76%
  • Government National Mortgage Association 1.21%
  • United States Treasury 1.03%
  • BEIGNET INVESTOR LLC 1.01%
  • Government National Mortgage Association 0.98%
  • UMBS, TBA 0.96%

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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.