ETF comparison
BND vs LQD
US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
2,853 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and LQD would leave roughly 13.6% 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 11 bps cheaper than LQD. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/yr more in fees for LQD.
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 LQD.
Top shared holdings
2,853 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In LQD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T-Mobile USA Inc | 0.04% | 0.16% | 0.04% |
| 2 | Morgan Stanley | 0.04% | 0.06% | 0.04% |
| 3 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.04% | 0.07% | 0.04% |
| 4 | Morgan Stanley Private Bank NA | 0.03% | 0.07% | 0.03% |
| 5 | PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The | 0.03% | 0.04% | 0.03% |
| 6 | Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc | 0.03% | 0.20% | 0.03% |
| 7 | Boeing Co/The | 0.03% | 0.14% | 0.03% |
| 8 | Boeing Co/The | 0.03% | 0.09% | 0.03% |
| 9 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.03% | 0.06% | 0.03% |
| 10 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.03% | 0.09% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.03% | 0.04% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.03% | 0.06% | 0.03% |
Only in BND
14,543 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 LQD
282 total- MORGAN STANLEY 0.10%
- MORGAN STANLEY 0.09%
- MORGAN STANLEY 0.08%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.07%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 0.07%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.07%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.07%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.06%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.06%
- ORACLE CORP 0.05%
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- BND vs SPTL · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Treasury ETF 10.2%
- BND vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 10.0%
- BND vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 9.7%
- BND vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 9.4%
- BND vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 8.0%
- BND vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF 7.6%
More comparisons with LQD
- LQD vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 12.8%
- LQD vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 12.5%
- LQD vs SPSB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.4%
- LQD vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- LQD vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 0.0%
- LQD vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
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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