ETF comparison
BND vs IEI
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Intermediate).
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
82 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and IEI would leave roughly 15.0% 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
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Cost difference
BND is 12 bps cheaper than IEI. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for IEI.
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 IEI.
Top shared holdings
82 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In IEI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.35% | 2.09% | 0.35% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.35% | 1.93% | 0.35% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.34% | 2.29% | 0.34% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.34% | 2.11% | 0.34% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.34% | 2.26% | 0.34% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.32% | 2.10% | 0.32% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.32% | 2.10% | 0.32% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.32% | 2.08% | 0.32% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.32% | 2.30% | 0.32% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.32% | 2.17% | 0.32% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.31% | 1.93% | 0.31% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.31% | 1.83% | 0.31% |
Only in BND
17,314 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 IEI
1 total- United States of America 0.98%
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- BND vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 9.9%
- BND vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 9.2%
- BND vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 7.9%
More comparisons with IEI
- IEI vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 14.4%
- IEI vs IEF · iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF 2.0%
- IEI vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- IEI vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 0.0%
- IEI vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- IEI vs TIP · iShares TIPS 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/.
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