ETF comparison
BND vs USHY
US Aggregate Bond vs US High Yield Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and USHY 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
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Cost difference
BND is 5 bps cheaper than USHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for USHY.
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 USHY.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In USHY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pilgrim's Pride Corp | 0.00% | 0.05% | 0.00% |
| 2 | Pilgrim's Pride Corp | 0.00% | 0.05% | 0.00% |
| 3 | Pilgrim's Pride Corp | 0.00% | 0.03% | 0.00% |
| 4 | Pilgrim's Pride Corp | 0.00% | 0.05% | 0.00% |
Only in BND
17,392 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 USHY
1,888 total- 1261229 BC LTD 0.47%
- MERIDIAN ARC HOLDCO LLC 0.39%
- ECHOSTAR CORP 0.39%
- QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC 0.29%
- PR RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.28%
- ASURION LLC/ASURION CO 0.26%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP LLC 0.26%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP LLC 0.25%
- HUB INTERNATIONAL LTD 0.24%
- SV RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.24%
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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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