ETF comparison
BNDX vs EBND
Both International Bond.
Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
346 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BNDX and EBND would leave roughly 8.6% 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
BNDX is 23 bps cheaper than EBND. On a $100,000 position that's about $230/yr more in fees for EBND.
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 BNDX vs EBND.
Top shared holdings
346 shared in total| # | Holding | In BNDX | In EBND | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korea Treasury Bond | 0.12% | 0.25% | 0.12% |
| 2 | Republic of Poland Government Bond | 0.10% | 0.24% | 0.10% |
| 3 | Republic of Poland Government Bond | 0.10% | 0.48% | 0.10% |
| 4 | Korea Treasury Bond | 0.09% | 0.21% | 0.09% |
| 5 | Mexican Bonos | 0.09% | 0.59% | 0.09% |
| 6 | Republic of Poland Government Bond | 0.09% | 0.36% | 0.09% |
| 7 | Mexican Bonos | 0.08% | 0.54% | 0.08% |
| 8 | Korea Treasury Bond | 0.08% | 0.11% | 0.08% |
| 9 | Mexican Bonos | 0.08% | 0.65% | 0.08% |
| 10 | Mexican Bonos | 0.08% | 0.43% | 0.08% |
| 11 | Mexican Bonos | 0.08% | 0.41% | 0.08% |
| 12 | Korea Treasury Bond | 0.08% | 0.20% | 0.08% |
Only in BNDX
6,472 total- United Kingdom Gilt 0.41%
- French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.37%
- French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.36%
- United Kingdom Gilt 0.36%
- United Kingdom Gilt 0.35%
- United Kingdom Gilt 0.34%
- French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.33%
- French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.33%
- Bundesrepublik Deutschland Bundesanleihe 0.30%
- United Kingdom Gilt 0.30%
Only in EBND
274 total- NOTA DO TESOURO NACIONAL 0.73%
- NOTA DO TESOURO NACIONAL 0.70%
- REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 0.61%
- TITULOS DE TESORERIA 0.58%
- REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 0.56%
- REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 0.54%
- REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 0.52%
- LETRA TESOURO NACIONAL 0.50%
- REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 0.50%
- LETRA TESOURO NACIONAL 0.48%
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- BNDX vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 0.4%
- BNDX vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 0.1%
- BNDX vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 0.1%
More comparisons with EBND
- EBND vs IGOV · iShares International Treasury Bond ETF 7.1%
- EBND vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
- EBND vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- EBND vs EMB · iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF 0.0%
- EBND vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- EBND vs PCY · Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt 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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