ETF comparison
BND vs SHYG
US Aggregate Bond vs US High Yield Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and SHYG 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
BND is 27 bps cheaper than SHYG. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/yr more in fees for SHYG.
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 SHYG.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo 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 SHYG
1,152 total- MERIDIAN ARC HOLDCO LLC 0.58%
- ECHOSTAR CORP 0.53%
- PR RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.46%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP LLC 0.43%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP LLC 0.42%
- WULF COMPUTE LLC 0.37%
- HUB INTERNATIONAL LTD 0.37%
- VENTURE GLOBAL LNG INC 0.36%
- CORE SCIENTIFIC FINANCE 0.34%
- DISH DBS CORP 0.33%
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- SHYG vs TIP · iShares TIPS 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/.
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.