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ETF comparison

BND vs CORP

US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
5.4 %

930 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and CORP would leave roughly 5.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BND unmatched 93.6% Shared 5.4% CORP unmatched 103.2%

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
16,466 positions
Shared
930 positions
In CORP only
524 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%
CORP

PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund

PIMCO · US Corporate Bond

64 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.41%
Net assets
$1.33B
TTM yield
5.11%
Top-10 conc.
11.9%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
59
52
Tax efficiency
50
100
Liquidity
62
100
Concentration
97
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Tracking quality
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BND sub-score CORP

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

Cost difference

BND is 38 bps cheaper than CORP. On a $100,000 position that's about $380/yr more in fees for CORP.

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 CORP.

Top shared holdings

930 shared in total
# Holding In BND In CORP Overlap
1 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41% 2.53% 0.41%
2 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.24% 0.58% 0.24%
3 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.23% 1.23% 0.23%
4 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.13% 0.93% 0.13%
5 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.13% 1.11% 0.13%
6 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.11% 0.18% 0.11%
7 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.10% 0.95% 0.10%
8 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.11% 0.08% 0.08%
9 Morgan Stanley Private Bank NA 0.03% 0.14% 0.03%
10 Boeing Co/The 0.03% 0.17% 0.03%
11 Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.03% 0.21% 0.03%
12 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.03% 2.26% 0.03%

Only in BND

16,466 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 0.40%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.36%

Only in CORP

524 total
  • United States Treasury 1.28%
  • SOUTHERN CAL EDISON 0.57%
  • GULFSTREAM NATURAL GAS 0.46%
  • BNP PARIBAS 0.43%
  • MARS INC 0.35%
  • ALLY FINANCIAL INC 0.33%
  • PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES 0.30%
  • CENTENE CORP 0.27%
  • RGA GLOBAL FUNDING 0.27%
  • AVOLON HOLDINGS FNDG LTD 0.26%

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.