ETF comparison
BND vs MINT
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund
Holdings overlap
46 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and MINT would leave roughly 0.4% 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 33 bps cheaper than MINT. On a $100,000 position that's about $330/yr more in fees for MINT.
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 MINT.
Top shared holdings
46 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In MINT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.25% | 6.21% | 0.25% |
| 2 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.02% | 0.03% | 0.02% |
| 3 | US Bancorp | 0.01% | 0.05% | 0.01% |
| 4 | Pacific Gas and Electric Co | 0.01% | 0.05% | 0.01% |
| 5 | Banco Santander SA | 0.01% | 0.27% | 0.01% |
| 6 | Barclays PLC | 0.01% | 0.06% | 0.01% |
| 7 | Ford Motor Credit Co LLC | 0.01% | 0.04% | 0.01% |
| 8 | Banco Santander SA | 0.01% | 0.02% | 0.01% |
| 9 | Duke Energy Corp | 0.00% | 0.03% | 0.00% |
| 10 | Nomura Holdings Inc | 0.00% | 0.02% | 0.00% |
| 11 | BAT Capital Corp | 0.00% | 0.31% | 0.00% |
| 12 | Pacific Gas and Electric Co | 0.00% | 0.33% | 0.00% |
Only in BND
17,350 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 MINT
968 total- Fannie Mae 1.12%
- Freddie Mac 0.99%
- SUMISHO AIR LEASE CORP 0.87%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.77%
- AERCAP IRELAND CAP/GLOBA 0.77%
- Trillium Credit Card Trust II 0.71%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 0.70%
- HCA Inc 0.63%
- Nissan Auto Lease Trust 0.63%
- SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO 0.63%
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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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