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BND vs HYD

US Aggregate Bond vs US Municipal Bond.

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · VanEck High Yield Muni ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and HYD would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BND unmatched 99.0% Shared 0.0% HYD unmatched 96.8%

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
17,396 positions
Shared
0 positions
In HYD only
2,103 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%
HYD

VanEck High Yield Muni ETF

VanEck · US Municipal Bond

81 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.32%
Net assets
$3.89B
TTM yield
4.51%
Top-10 conc.
6.3%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
68
52
Tax efficiency
93
100
Liquidity
82
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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BND sub-score HYD

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

Cost difference

BND is 29 bps cheaper than HYD. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/yr more in fees for HYD.

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 HYD.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in BND

17,396 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 HYD

2,103 total
  • Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp Sales Tax Revenue 0.98%
  • Chicago Board of Education 0.79%
  • Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp 0.71%
  • Buckeye Tobacco Settlement Financing Authority 0.69%
  • New York Transportation Development Corp 0.61%
  • Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp Sales Tax Revenue 0.58%
  • Chicago Board of Education 0.53%
  • Florida Development Finance Corp 0.52%
  • New York Transportation Development Corp 0.48%
  • Arkansas Development Finance Authority 0.45%

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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.