ETF comparison
BND vs JNK
US Aggregate Bond vs US High Yield Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and JNK would leave roughly 0.0% 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
BND is 37 bps cheaper than JNK. On a $100,000 position that's about $370/yr more in fees for JNK.
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 JNK.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In JNK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T-Mobile USA Inc | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in BND
17,395 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 JNK
1,193 total- 1261229 BC LTD 0.63%
- MERIDIAN ARC HOLDCO LLC 0.56%
- ECHOSTAR CORP 0.51%
- PR RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.48%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC 0.41%
- QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC 0.40%
- DISH NETWORK CORP 0.40%
- SV RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.39%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC 0.37%
- VENTURE GLOBAL LNG INC 0.37%
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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/.
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