ETF comparison
BND vs VCLT
US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,462 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and VCLT would leave roughly 7.2% 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 VCLT.
Top shared holdings
2,462 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In VCLT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.04% | 0.13% | 0.04% |
| 3 | Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc | 0.03% | 0.37% | 0.03% |
| 4 | Boeing Co/The | 0.03% | 0.27% | 0.03% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.03% | 0.11% | 0.03% |
| 6 | Meta Platforms Inc | 0.02% | 0.16% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Bank of America Corp | 0.02% | 0.22% | 0.02% |
| 8 | Amazon.com Inc | 0.02% | 0.26% | 0.02% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.14% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | CVS Health Corp | 0.02% | 0.33% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.02% | 0.14% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Apple Inc | 0.02% | 0.17% | 0.02% |
Only in BND
14,934 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 0.40%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.36%
Only in VCLT
313 total- Rio Tinto Finance USA PLC 0.11%
- Altria Group Inc 0.10%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.10%
- Time Warner Cable LLC 0.10%
- ConocoPhillips 0.10%
- Walt Disney Co/The 0.09%
- TransCanada PipeLines Ltd 0.09%
- ConocoPhillips Co 0.09%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.08%
- Intel Corp 0.08%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with BND
- 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%
- BND vs SPMB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond ETF 5.9%
More comparisons with VCLT
- VCLT vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 6.9%
- VCLT vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 6.9%
- VCLT vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 0.3%
- VCLT vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.3%
- VCLT vs VCIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.2%
- VCLT vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury 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/.
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