ETF comparison
BND vs VTC
US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
4,766 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and VTC would leave roughly 17.8% 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
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 VTC.
Top shared holdings
4,766 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In VTC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.33% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.04% | 0.05% | 0.04% |
| 3 | T-Mobile USA Inc | 0.04% | 0.09% | 0.04% |
| 4 | Morgan Stanley | 0.04% | 0.07% | 0.04% |
| 5 | Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc | 0.03% | 0.10% | 0.03% |
| 6 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.03% | 0.07% | 0.03% |
| 7 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.03% | 0.13% | 0.03% |
| 8 | PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The | 0.03% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.18% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | Bank of America Corp | 0.03% | 0.05% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Bank of America Corp | 0.03% | 0.08% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Meta Platforms Inc | 0.02% | 0.06% | 0.02% |
Only in BND
12,630 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 VTC
573 total- Bank of Nova Scotia/The 0.08%
- Morgan Stanley 0.08%
- Morgan Stanley 0.08%
- Broadcom Inc 0.08%
- Citigroup Inc 0.08%
- Verizon Communications Inc 0.07%
- Citigroup Inc 0.07%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.06%
- Fiserv Inc 0.06%
- American National Group Inc 0.06%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with BND
- BND vs SCHO · Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 17.2%
- BND vs SPTS · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Treasury ETF 17.1%
- BND vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 16.9%
- BND vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 16.6%
- BND vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 16.1%
- BND vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 15.9%
More comparisons with VTC
- VTC vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 16.6%
- VTC vs SPSB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF 16.6%
- VTC vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 16.5%
- VTC vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 12.9%
- VTC vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.3%
- VTC vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury 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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