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ETF comparison

BND vs VCSH

US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.

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

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
9.2 %

2,623 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and VCSH would leave roughly 9.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BND unmatched 89.8% Shared 9.2% VCSH unmatched 89.5%

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 BND only
14,773 positions
Shared
2,623 positions
In VCSH only
440 positions

Side by side

BND

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Aggregate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$400.61B
whole fund, 6 share classes
TTM yield
3.79%
Top-10 conc.
4.1%
VCSH

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Corporate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$52.92B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
4.16%
Top-10 conc.
1.9%

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 VCSH

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 VCSH.

Top shared holdings

2,623 shared in total
# Holding In BND In VCSH Overlap
1 T-Mobile USA Inc 0.04% 0.19% 0.04%
2 Morgan Stanley 0.04% 0.06% 0.04%
3 Morgan Stanley Private Bank NA 0.03% 0.13% 0.03%
4 Boeing Co/The 0.03% 0.19% 0.03%
5 JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.03% 0.12% 0.03%
6 Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.03% 0.14% 0.03%
7 Bank of America Corp 0.03% 0.23% 0.03%
8 Morgan Stanley 0.03% 0.11% 0.03%
9 Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.03% 0.08% 0.03%
10 Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.03% 0.06% 0.03%
11 Bank of America Corp 0.03% 0.16% 0.03%
12 Bank of America Corp 0.02% 0.13% 0.02%

Only in BND

14,773 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 VCSH

440 total
  • Amazon.com Inc 0.14%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.13%
  • Morgan Stanley 0.12%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.11%
  • Honeywell Aerospace Inc 0.10%
  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.10%
  • Amazon.com Inc 0.09%
  • HSBC Holdings PLC 0.09%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.09%
  • AT&T Inc 0.09%

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.