ETF comparison
BOND vs VGLT
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Long).
PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
8 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BOND and VGLT would leave roughly 5.5% 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
VGLT is 48 bps cheaper than BOND. On a $100,000 position that's about $480/yr more in fees for BOND.
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 BOND vs VGLT.
Top shared holdings
8 shared in total| # | Holding | In BOND | In VGLT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 2.57% | 1.31% | 1.31% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 1.32% | 1.16% | 1.16% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 3.39% | 1.09% | 1.09% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 1.94% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.73% | 1.30% | 0.73% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.38% | 2.15% | 0.38% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.09% | 2.09% | 0.09% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.00% | 1.36% | 0.00% |
Only in BOND
1,511 total- UMBS, TBA 5.56%
- PIMCO Mortgage-Backed Securities Active Exchange-Traded Fund 4.07%
- UMBS, TBA 3.46%
- UMBS, TBA 2.73%
- UMBS, TBA 2.54%
- UMBS, TBA 2.27%
- United States Treasury 1.93%
- Freddie Mac 1.88%
- Freddie Mac 1.76%
- UMBS, TBA 1.58%
Only in VGLT
91 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.18%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.13%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.09%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.09%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.00%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.99%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.96%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.80%
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- BOND vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 3.8%
- BOND vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 3.2%
- BOND vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond Index ETF 3.2%
- BOND vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 3.0%
More comparisons with VGLT
- VGLT vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 4.0%
- VGLT vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 3.2%
- VGLT vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 1.8%
- VGLT vs VCLT · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.1%
- VGLT vs VWOB · Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGLT vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 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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