ETF comparison
BNDX vs VCRB
International Bond vs US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Core Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
67 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BNDX and VCRB would leave roughly 0.9% 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 3 bps cheaper than VCRB. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for VCRB.
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 VCRB.
Top shared holdings
67 shared in total| # | Holding | In BNDX | In VCRB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy Buoni Poliennali Del Tesoro | 0.23% | 0.34% | 0.23% |
| 2 | Italy Buoni Poliennali Del Tesoro | 0.15% | 0.18% | 0.15% |
| 3 | Spain Government Bond | 0.07% | 0.14% | 0.07% |
| 4 | Spain Government Bond | 0.06% | 0.14% | 0.06% |
| 5 | Slovakia Government Bond | 0.03% | 0.09% | 0.03% |
| 6 | European Union | 0.03% | 0.10% | 0.03% |
| 7 | Hellenic Republic Government Bond | 0.03% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 8 | Japan Government Thirty Year Bond | 0.02% | 0.12% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Hungary Government International Bond | 0.02% | 0.04% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Lithuania Government International Bond | 0.02% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Athora Holding Ltd | 0.01% | 0.02% | 0.01% |
| 12 | Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale | 0.01% | 0.22% | 0.01% |
Only in BNDX
6,751 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 VCRB
3,347 total- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 2.33%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.02%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.97%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.75%
- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.68%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.65%
- Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau 0.60%
- Fannie Mae REMICS 0.59%
- OBX 2026-INV2 Trust 0.57%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.56%
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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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