ETF comparison
BND vs SPLB
US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
2,560 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and SPLB would leave roughly 7.6% 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 1 bps cheaper than SPLB. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SPLB.
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 SPLB.
Top shared holdings
2,560 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In SPLB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc | 0.03% | 0.35% | 0.03% |
| 2 | Boeing Co/The | 0.03% | 0.25% | 0.03% |
| 3 | Meta Platforms Inc | 0.02% | 0.28% | 0.02% |
| 4 | Bank of America Corp | 0.02% | 0.20% | 0.02% |
| 5 | Amazon.com Inc | 0.02% | 0.15% | 0.02% |
| 6 | CVS Health Corp | 0.02% | 0.34% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.02% | 0.23% | 0.02% |
| 8 | Apple Inc | 0.02% | 0.17% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Amazon.com Inc | 0.02% | 0.10% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Amazon.com Inc | 0.02% | 0.10% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.02% | 0.18% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp | 0.02% | 0.17% | 0.02% |
Only in BND
14,836 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 SPLB
379 total- THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC 0.13%
- TRANSCANADA PIPELINES 0.11%
- VODAFONE GROUP PLC 0.10%
- MIZUHO FINANCIAL GROUP 0.10%
- RIO TINTO FIN USA PLC 0.09%
- ENBRIDGE ENERGY PARTNERS 0.09%
- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC 0.09%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.09%
- RIO TINTO FIN USA LTD 0.07%
- UNITED PARCEL SERVICE 0.07%
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- BND vs VCLT · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 7.2%
- BND vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 7.0%
- BND vs VCIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 7.0%
- BND vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 6.9%
- BND vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 6.4%
- BND vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 6.4%
More comparisons with SPLB
- SPLB vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 7.4%
- SPLB vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 7.2%
- SPLB vs VCIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.4%
- SPLB vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.3%
- SPLB vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 0.2%
- SPLB vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.2%
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.