ETF comparison
BND vs PCY
US Aggregate Bond vs International Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF
Holdings overlap
18 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and PCY would leave roughly 0.1% 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 47 bps cheaper than PCY. On a $100,000 position that's about $470/yr more in fees for PCY.
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 PCY.
Top shared holdings
18 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In PCY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungary Government International Bond | 0.01% | 0.95% | 0.01% |
| 2 | Panama Government International Bond | 0.01% | 0.97% | 0.01% |
| 3 | Peruvian Government International Bond | 0.01% | 0.94% | 0.01% |
| 4 | Mexico Government International Bond | 0.01% | 0.91% | 0.01% |
| 5 | Chile Government International Bond | 0.01% | 0.92% | 0.01% |
| 6 | Chile Government International Bond | 0.01% | 0.92% | 0.01% |
| 7 | Mexico Government International Bond | 0.01% | 0.90% | 0.01% |
| 8 | Peruvian Government International Bond | 0.00% | 0.96% | 0.00% |
| 9 | Philippine Government International Bond | 0.00% | 0.91% | 0.00% |
| 10 | Panama Government International Bond | 0.00% | 0.97% | 0.00% |
| 11 | Republic of Poland Government International Bond | 0.00% | 1.46% | 0.00% |
| 12 | Chile Government International Bond | 0.00% | 0.93% | 0.00% |
Only in BND
17,378 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 PCY
85 total- Pakistan Government International Bond 1.43%
- Pakistan Government International Bond 1.43%
- Angolan Government International Bond 1.04%
- Angolan Government International Bond 1.04%
- Nigeria Government International Bond 1.02%
- Trinidad & Tobago Government International Bond 1.01%
- El Salvador Government International Bond 1.01%
- Nigeria Government International Bond 1.01%
- Colombia Government International Bond 1.00%
- El Salvador Government International Bond 1.00%
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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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