ETF comparison
BND vs VGSH
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
85 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and VGSH would leave roughly 16.1% 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 VGSH.
Top shared holdings
85 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In VGSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.47% | 2.24% | 0.47% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 0.83% | 0.41% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.27% | 1.18% | 0.27% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.25% | 1.22% | 0.25% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.25% | 1.10% | 0.25% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.25% | 1.18% | 0.25% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.24% | 1.40% | 0.24% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.23% | 1.30% | 0.23% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.23% | 1.15% | 0.23% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.23% | 0.82% | 0.23% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.22% | 1.35% | 0.22% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.22% | 0.81% | 0.22% |
Only in BND
17,311 total- 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%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.36%
Only in VGSH
6 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.20%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.16%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.11%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.92%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.59%
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- BND vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 15.9%
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- BND vs IEI · iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF 15.4%
- BND vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF 15.4%
- BND vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 15.0%
- BND vs LQD · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 13.6%
More comparisons with VGSH
- VGSH vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.6%
- VGSH vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.1%
- VGSH vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.1%
- VGSH vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF 14.6%
- VGSH vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 13.7%
- VGSH vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 12.5%
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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