ETF comparison
BND vs VGIT
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Intermediate).
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
103 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and VGIT would leave roughly 20.8% 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
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · US Treasury (Intermediate)
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
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 VGIT.
Top shared holdings
103 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In VGIT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 1.92% | 0.41% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 1.90% | 0.41% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 1.94% | 0.41% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 1.81% | 0.41% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 1.87% | 0.41% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.40% | 1.87% | 0.40% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.39% | 1.89% | 0.39% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.39% | 1.84% | 0.39% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.36% | 1.68% | 0.36% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.36% | 1.89% | 0.36% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.35% | 1.53% | 0.35% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.35% | 1.58% | 0.35% |
Only in BND
17,293 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.47%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.33%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.27%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.24%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.24%
Only in VGIT
0 totalEvery VGIT position is also held by BND.
Related comparisons
More comparisons with BND
- BND vs SPTI · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Treasury ETF 20.2%
- BND vs SCHR · Schwab Intermediate-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 20.2%
- BND vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 18.5%
- BND vs BIV · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 18.4%
- BND vs VTC · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares 17.8%
- BND vs SCHO · Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 17.2%
More comparisons with VGIT
- VGIT vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 20.8%
- VGIT vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 19.8%
- VGIT vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGIT vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 0.0%
- VGIT vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGIT vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
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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