ETF comparison
BND vs VCSH
US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,585 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and VCSH would leave roughly 9.4% 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 VCSH.
Top shared holdings
2,585 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In VCSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.33% | 0.83% | 0.33% |
| 2 | T-Mobile USA Inc | 0.04% | 0.19% | 0.04% |
| 3 | Morgan Stanley | 0.04% | 0.06% | 0.04% |
| 4 | Morgan Stanley Private Bank NA | 0.03% | 0.12% | 0.03% |
| 5 | Boeing Co/The | 0.03% | 0.19% | 0.03% |
| 6 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.03% | 0.12% | 0.03% |
| 7 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.03% | 0.13% | 0.03% |
| 8 | Bank of America Corp | 0.03% | 0.23% | 0.03% |
| 9 | Morgan Stanley | 0.03% | 0.12% | 0.03% |
| 10 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.03% | 0.06% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.03% | 0.06% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Bank of America Corp | 0.03% | 0.16% | 0.03% |
Only in BND
14,811 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 VCSH
414 total- Wells Fargo & Co 0.13%
- Bank of America Corp 0.13%
- Bank of America Corp 0.13%
- Broadcom Inc 0.11%
- AT&T Inc 0.11%
- Verizon Communications Inc 0.11%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.10%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.09%
- Intercontinental Exchange Inc 0.09%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.09%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with BND
- BND vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 8.0%
- BND vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF 7.6%
- BND vs VCLT · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 7.2%
- 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%
More comparisons with VCSH
- VCSH vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 8.8%
- VCSH vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 8.7%
- VCSH vs VCIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 1.0%
- VCSH vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.9%
- VCSH vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 0.8%
- VCSH vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.5%
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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