ETF comparison
BND vs SPSB
US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
1,357 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and SPSB would leave roughly 4.6% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
BND is 1 bps cheaper than SPSB. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SPSB.
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 SPSB.
Top shared holdings
1,357 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In SPSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bank of America Corp | 0.03% | 0.42% | 0.03% |
| 2 | Morgan Stanley | 0.03% | 0.25% | 0.03% |
| 3 | Bank of America Corp | 0.02% | 0.20% | 0.02% |
| 4 | Cisco Systems Inc | 0.02% | 0.21% | 0.02% |
| 5 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.02% | 0.23% | 0.02% |
| 6 | Broadcom Inc | 0.02% | 0.11% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Fox Corp | 0.02% | 0.07% | 0.02% |
| 8 | Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc | 0.02% | 0.19% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Bank of America Corp | 0.02% | 0.18% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.02% | 0.23% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Citigroup Inc | 0.02% | 0.17% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd | 0.02% | 0.37% | 0.02% |
Only in BND
16,039 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 SPSB
242 total- SALESFORCE INC 0.56%
- FIDELITY NATL INFO SERV 0.29%
- TORONTO-DOMINION BANK 0.26%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 0.24%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.18%
- MORGAN STANLEY PVT BANK 0.18%
- APPLE INC 0.17%
- VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS 0.17%
- HONEYWELL AEROSPACE INC 0.17%
- NATIONAL BANK OF CANADA 0.16%
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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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