ETF comparison
BND vs VGLT
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Long).
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
96 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and VGLT would leave roughly 10.0% 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 VGLT.
Top shared holdings
96 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In VGLT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.24% | 2.22% | 0.24% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.23% | 2.17% | 0.23% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.23% | 2.04% | 0.23% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.22% | 2.17% | 0.22% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.21% | 2.14% | 0.21% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.21% | 2.21% | 0.21% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.21% | 2.13% | 0.21% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.20% | 2.04% | 0.20% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.20% | 1.83% | 0.20% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.19% | 2.21% | 0.19% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.18% | 1.50% | 0.18% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.18% | 1.51% | 0.18% |
Only in BND
17,300 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 VGLT
1 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
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- 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%
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More comparisons with VGLT
- VGLT vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF 9.6%
- VGLT vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 9.3%
- VGLT vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 9.3%
- VGLT vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 9.3%
- VGLT vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 7.5%
- VGLT vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 7.1%
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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