Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND)

Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF — analysis

In the bonds — aggregate group, Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND) has gathered $8.1B. The cost line is 38 bps per year, the benchmark is Bloomberg US Agg Bond Index, and the fund has traded since 2010.

On the ValueMarkers VMCI-Composite read, BND scores 64/100. The score is the weighted average of the underlying VMCI ratings across the top 10 holdings, which together represent roughly 31% of the fund. That places BND in above-average composite quality territory inside the Bonds — Aggregate cohort.

BND compounded at 14.5% per year over the trailing five years, which compares to 15.0% on the benchmark. The -0.5-pp gap captures expense drag plus any active deviation in the strategy.

Trailing yield on BND is 5.00%, with distributions growing at 9.5% annualized over five years. That combination is the simplest read on whether the fund is structured for current income or distribution growth.

BND weight stack: top 10 names equal 31%, sector tilt Technology 29%, single-name concentration peaks at AAPL (3.76%). Those three numbers describe the fund's risk shape on a single screen.

Peer ETFs covering the same mandate as BND: AGG, GOVT. The practical comparison runs on issuer reliability, expense ratio, holdings concentration, and tax efficiency, all of which ValueMarkers surfaces on the individual ETF pages.