ETF comparison
BNDX vs SPAB
International Bond vs US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BNDX and SPAB 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
SPAB is 4 bps cheaper than BNDX. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for BNDX.
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 SPAB.
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 SPAB
8,285 total- United States Treasury 0.79%
- United States Treasury 0.44%
- United States Treasury 0.43%
- United States Treasury 0.42%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.38%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open BNDX or SPAB at a brokerage
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.