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ETF comparison

BND vs VTC

US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
17.2 %

4,651 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and VTC would leave roughly 17.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BND unmatched 81.8% Shared 17.2% VTC unmatched 81.4%

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
12,745 positions
Shared
4,651 positions
In VTC only
682 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%
VTC

Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Corporate Bond

80 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$1.62B
TTM yield
4.72%
Top-10 conc.
1.1%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
97
53
Tax efficiency
51
100
Liquidity
66
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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BND sub-score VTC

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 VTC.

Top shared holdings

4,651 shared in total
# Holding In BND In VTC Overlap
1 T-Mobile USA Inc 0.04% 0.09% 0.04%
2 Morgan Stanley 0.04% 0.07% 0.04%
3 Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.03% 0.10% 0.03%
4 Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.03% 0.07% 0.03%
5 JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.03% 0.07% 0.03%
6 Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.03% 0.10% 0.03%
7 PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The 0.03% 0.03% 0.03%
8 Bank of America Corp 0.03% 0.05% 0.03%
9 Bank of America Corp 0.03% 0.06% 0.03%
10 Meta Platforms Inc 0.02% 0.07% 0.02%
11 Citigroup Inc 0.02% 0.03% 0.02%
12 Bank of America Corp 0.02% 0.03% 0.02%

Only in BND

12,745 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 VTC

682 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.18%
  • Morgan Stanley 0.08%
  • Citigroup Inc 0.07%
  • Morgan Stanley 0.07%
  • Morgan Stanley 0.07%
  • Citigroup Inc 0.07%
  • Salesforce Inc 0.07%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.06%
  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.06%
  • Honeywell Aerospace Inc 0.06%

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.