ETF comparison
BND vs GBIL
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · Goldman Sachs Access Treasury 0-1 Year ETF
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and GBIL would leave roughly 0.8% 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
BND is 9 bps cheaper than GBIL. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/yr more in fees for GBIL.
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 GBIL.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In GBIL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.22% | 3.93% | 0.22% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.21% | 3.42% | 0.21% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.19% | 2.42% | 0.19% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.16% | 1.30% | 0.16% |
Only in BND
17,392 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.47%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- 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%
Only in GBIL
35 total- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 7.21%
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 7.16%
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 6.81%
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 6.58%
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 6.54%
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 4.19%
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 3.84%
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 3.63%
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 3.63%
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 3.29%
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More comparisons with GBIL
- GBIL vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.7%
- GBIL vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.2%
- GBIL vs BIL · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF 0.0%
- GBIL vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- GBIL vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 0.0%
- GBIL vs TFLO · iShares Treasury Floating Rate Bond 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/.
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.