ETF comparison
BNDX vs SGOV
International Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BNDX and SGOV would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
BNDX is 2 bps cheaper than SGOV. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for SGOV.
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 SGOV.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in BNDX
6,818 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 SGOV
22 total- United States of America 10.14%
- United States of America 8.64%
- United States of America 8.54%
- United States of America 8.33%
- United States of America 7.09%
- United States of America 6.87%
- United States of America 6.76%
- United States of America 5.99%
- United States of America 5.08%
- United States of America 4.91%
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- SGOV vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
- SGOV vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- SGOV vs SPTS · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Treasury 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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