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BND vs BSV

Both US Aggregate Bond.

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
36.5 %

2,851 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and BSV would leave roughly 36.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BND only 62.3% Shared 36.5% BSV only 61.8%
In BND only
14,509 positions
Shared
2,851 positions
In BSV only
305 positions

Side by side

BND

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund

Vanguard · US Aggregate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$397.86B
TTM yield
3.99%
Top-10 conc.
4.8%
BSV

Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Aggregate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$69.83B
TTM yield
4.01%
Top-10 conc.
8.5%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
97
53
Tax efficiency
52
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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BND sub-score BSV

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

Cost difference

Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).

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 BND vs BSV.

Top shared holdings

2,851 shared in total
# Holding In BND In BSV Overlap
1 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.48% 1.16% 0.48%
2 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.42% 0.76% 0.42%
3 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.35% 0.92% 0.35%
4 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.32% 0.76% 0.32%
5 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.32% 0.75% 0.32%
6 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.31% 0.56% 0.31%
7 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.31% 0.63% 0.31%
8 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.29% 0.64% 0.29%
9 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.27% 0.82% 0.27%
10 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.27% 0.57% 0.27%
11 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.27% 0.49% 0.27%
12 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.26% 0.49% 0.26%

Only in BND

14,509 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.42%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.42%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.40%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.36%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.36%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.36%

Only in BSV

305 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.21%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.06%
  • Morgan Stanley 0.05%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.04%
  • Inter-American Development Bank 0.04%
  • International Bank for Reconstruction & Development 0.03%
  • Inter-American Development Bank 0.03%
  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.03%
  • Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corp 0.02%
  • Truist Financial Corp 0.02%

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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.