ETF comparison
BND vs VGIT
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Intermediate).
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
101 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and VGIT would leave roughly 19.9% 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
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · US Treasury (Intermediate)
Sub-score comparison
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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 VGIT.
Top shared holdings
101 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In VGIT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 1.92% | 0.41% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 1.87% | 0.41% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 1.92% | 0.41% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 1.82% | 0.41% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.41% | 1.87% | 0.41% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.40% | 1.83% | 0.40% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.39% | 1.82% | 0.39% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.39% | 1.81% | 0.39% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.36% | 1.64% | 0.36% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.36% | 1.83% | 0.36% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.35% | 1.50% | 0.35% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.35% | 1.53% | 0.35% |
Only in BND
17,295 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.47%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.33%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.27%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.24%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.24%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.23%
Only in VGIT
2 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.06%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.71%
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- BND vs VTC · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares 17.2%
- BND vs SPTS · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Treasury Index ETF 17.1%
- BND vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 16.9%
More comparisons with VGIT
- VGIT vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 19.2%
- VGIT vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGIT vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 0.0%
- VGIT vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGIT vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGIT vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury 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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