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BNDX vs TLT

International Bond vs US Treasury (Long).

Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BNDX and TLT would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BNDX unmatched 98.0% Shared 0.0% TLT unmatched 98.2%

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.

In BNDX only
6,818 positions
Shared
0 positions
In TLT only
46 positions

Side by side

BNDX

Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Bond

87 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$121.63B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
4.65%
Top-10 conc.
3.5%
TLT

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF

iShares · US Treasury (Long)

83 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$46.23B
TTM yield
4.78%
Top-10 conc.
41.9%

Sub-score comparison

93
Cost
85
51
Tax efficiency
56
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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BNDX sub-score TLT

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

BNDX is 8 bps cheaper than TLT. On a $100,000 position that's about $80/yr more in fees for TLT.

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 TLT.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No 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 TLT

46 total
  • United States of America 4.58%
  • United States of America 4.50%
  • United States of America 4.46%
  • United States of America 4.40%
  • United States of America 4.15%
  • United States of America 4.04%
  • United States of America 4.03%
  • United States of America 3.95%
  • United States of America 3.94%
  • United States of America 3.86%

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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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