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BND vs TBIL

US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · F/m US Treasury 3 Month Bill Fund - ETF Class Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and TBIL would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BND unmatched 99.0% Shared 0.0% TBIL unmatched 100.0%

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.

In BND only
17,396 positions
Shared
0 positions
In TBIL only
1 positions

Side by side

BND

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Aggregate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$389.05B
whole fund, 6 share classes
TTM yield
4.13%
Top-10 conc.
4.1%
TBIL

F/m US Treasury 3 Month Bill Fund - ETF Class Shares

F/m Investments · US Treasury (Short)

81 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$7.40B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
3.63%
Top-10 conc.
100.0%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
85
52
Tax efficiency
58
100
Liquidity
94
100
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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BND sub-score TBIL

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

BND is 12 bps cheaper than TBIL. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for TBIL.

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 TBIL.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No 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 TBIL

1 total
  • TREASURY BILL 100.01%

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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/.

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.