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BND vs BSV

Both US Aggregate Bond.

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
36.9 %

2,889 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and BSV would leave roughly 36.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BND unmatched 62.1% Shared 36.9% BSV unmatched 61.7%

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
14,507 positions
Shared
2,889 positions
In BSV only
296 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%
BSV

Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Aggregate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$69.54B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
4.10%
Top-10 conc.
8.4%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
97
52
Tax efficiency
52
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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BND sub-score BSV

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 BND vs BSV.

Top shared holdings

2,889 shared in total
# Holding In BND In BSV Overlap
1 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.47% 1.12% 0.47%
2 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41% 0.75% 0.41%
3 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.34% 0.88% 0.34%
4 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.33% 0.67% 0.33%
5 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.32% 0.70% 0.32%
6 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.31% 0.77% 0.31%
7 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.31% 0.75% 0.31%
8 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.30% 0.63% 0.30%
9 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.28% 0.55% 0.28%
10 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.27% 0.49% 0.27%
11 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.27% 0.79% 0.27%
12 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.25% 0.49% 0.25%

Only in BND

14,507 total
  • 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%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.36%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.36%

Only in BSV

296 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.20%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.06%
  • Morgan Stanley 0.05%
  • Inter-American Development Bank 0.03%
  • Federal Home Loan Banks 0.03%
  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.03%
  • Inter-American Development Bank 0.03%
  • Capital One Financial Corp 0.02%
  • Bank of New York Mellon Corp/The 0.02%
  • Federal Home Loan Banks 0.02%

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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.