ETF comparison
BND vs VUSB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
411 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and VUSB would leave roughly 1.8% 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
BND is 7 bps cheaper than VUSB. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for VUSB.
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 VUSB.
Top shared holdings
411 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In VUSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.22% | 0.67% | 0.22% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.12% | 0.52% | 0.12% |
| 3 | Bank of America Corp | 0.03% | 0.19% | 0.03% |
| 4 | Bank of America Corp | 0.02% | 0.06% | 0.02% |
| 5 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.02% | 0.28% | 0.02% |
| 6 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.02% | 0.11% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Citigroup Inc | 0.01% | 0.10% | 0.01% |
| 8 | Lloyds Banking Group PLC | 0.01% | 0.06% | 0.01% |
| 9 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.01% | 0.03% | 0.01% |
| 10 | Goldman Sachs Bank USA/New York NY | 0.01% | 0.03% | 0.01% |
| 11 | NatWest Group PLC | 0.01% | 0.30% | 0.01% |
| 12 | AerCap Ireland Capital DAC / AerCap Global Aviation Trust | 0.01% | 0.09% | 0.01% |
Only in BND
16,985 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 VUSB
870 total- United States Treasury Bill 4.19%
- PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The 0.58%
- Westlake Flooring Master Trust 0.44%
- DLLAD 2024-1 LLC 0.43%
- UBS Group AG 0.41%
- Bank of Montreal 0.40%
- National Bank of Canada 0.38%
- Toyota Motor Credit Corp 0.37%
- RKTL 2026-2 0.37%
- PFS Financing Corp 0.36%
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More comparisons with VUSB
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- VUSB vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 1.2%
- VUSB vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 0.9%
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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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