ETF comparison
BND vs VCIT
US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,980 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and VCIT would leave roughly 7.0% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 VCIT.
Top shared holdings
1,980 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In VCIT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.07% | 0.18% | 0.07% |
| 2 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.04% | 0.16% | 0.04% |
| 3 | PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The | 0.03% | 0.08% | 0.03% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.18% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 5 | Citigroup Inc | 0.02% | 0.17% | 0.02% |
| 6 | Amazon.com Inc | 0.02% | 0.30% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc | 0.02% | 0.27% | 0.02% |
| 8 | Morgan Stanley | 0.02% | 0.16% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Bank of America Corp | 0.02% | 0.11% | 0.02% |
| 10 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.02% | 0.17% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Alphabet Inc | 0.02% | 0.24% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Meta Platforms Inc | 0.02% | 0.15% | 0.02% |
Only in BND
15,416 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 VCIT
322 total- Morgan Stanley 0.19%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.16%
- Citigroup Inc 0.12%
- Morgan Stanley 0.12%
- Comcast Corp 0.10%
- AT&T Inc 0.09%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 0.09%
- Jefferies Financial Group Inc 0.08%
- Dell International LLC / EMC Corp 0.08%
- BP Capital Markets America Inc 0.08%
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- 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%
- BND vs SPMB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond ETF 5.9%
- BND vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 5.6%
- BND vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 5.4%
More comparisons with VCIT
- VCIT vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 6.7%
- VCIT vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 6.5%
- VCIT vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 1.0%
- VCIT vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.4%
- VCIT vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.4%
- VCIT vs VCLT · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 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/.
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