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Overlap · from SEC filings

BND vs VWO: what actually overlaps

BND and VWO: 0.9% of a dollar ends up in the same companies either way (SEC Form N-PORT, 2026-06-30 and 2026-04-30), across 1 securities the two funds both hold. Every free comparison tool can list the tickers in common; this weights them, which is the part that decides whether owning both changes anything.

0.9%Overlap by weight
1Shared holdings
154.9Combined effective holdings
-722.8 vs BND alone

The short version

Held alone, BND behaves like 877.7 equally weighted positions and VWO like 36.6. Held together in equal size they behave like 154.9 — less diversified than holding BND on its own — but not because the two funds overlap, since they share only 1 securities, 0.9% of a dollar by weight. Effective holdings weights by money, and half of it now sits in VWO, which behaves like 36.6 on its own. That is what pulls the blend down.

Overlap here is the sum, over securities both funds hold, of the smaller of the two weights: the share of a dollar that sits in the same company either way. Matching is on CUSIP. Figures are as of each fund's own reporting date (2026-06-30 and 2026-04-30), which do not always align.

Not 50/50, or holding a third fund alongside these two? The portfolio calculator runs this same math for any weights, across up to 12 funds.

Side by side

as filed
BNDVWO
Assets$402B$161B
Holdings10,9773,862
Effective holdings877.736.6
Top ten weight4.63%27.9%
Largest position0.9%15.5%
Priced at market (Level 1)0.9%12.38%
Reporting date2026-06-302026-04-30

Each fund on its own: BND · VWO

Where the overlap actually is

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The ten shared positions that account for the most of it, with what each fund holds of its own. Shared is the lesser of the two — the part that is held in common either way. Where the two columns diverge, one fund is making a larger bet on that company than the other, and holding both does not average it away.

CompanyBNDVWOShared
Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund 0.9% 1.432% 0.9%

What the difference is made of

97.34% · 97.56%

97.34% of BND sits in companies VWO does not hold at all, and 97.56% of VWO in companies BND does not hold. The largest of each, by weight in its own fund:

Only in BND (97.34%)
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond
Only in VWO (97.56%)
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd
  • Tencent Holdings Ltd
  • Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
  • Delta Electronics Inc
  • MediaTek Inc

By country of issuer

2026-06-30 · 2026-04-30

Where each fund's money sits by the issuer country its filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Two funds can share companies and still differ here, and a pair that looks diversified by name can be one country twice.

CountryBNDVWODifference
United States 93.32% 2.81% +90.51
Taiwan 0.00% 28.91% −28.91
Hong Kong SAR China 0.00% 20.49% −20.49
India 0.00% 16.16% −16.16
China 0.00% 6.82% −6.82
Brazil 0.00% 4.61% −4.61
South Africa 0.00% 3.77% −3.77
Saudi Arabia 0.00% 3.19% −3.19
Mexico 0.36% 2.15% −1.79
Malaysia 0.00% 1.80% −1.80

What each fund did last quarter

Each fund's newest filing against its previous one. A pair whose overlap is rising or falling does so because of these moves; the figures are the same ones on each fund's page and in its feed.

FundPeriodPositionsAddedDroppedTurnoverLargest increase
BND 2026-03-31 → 2026-06-30 16,735 → 16,798 5304677.4% United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.18% → 0.41%
VWO 2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30 4,925 → 4,962 106699.4% Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 11.99% → 14.51%

Related comparisons

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Other pairs involving BND or VWO, ordered by how much they overlap.

PairOverlapCombined effective
AGG vs BND 63.53% 837.5
IEMG vs VWO 54.62% 45.3
VWO vs VXUS 26.3% 96.7
VT vs VWO 9.77% 110
BND vs BNDX 0.9% 1782.5
BND vs VTV 0.76% 345.2
VTV vs VWO 0.76% 114.4
BND vs VXUS 0.73% 824.2

Sources and limits

Computed from SEC Form N-PORT (NPORT-P), the portfolio report every registered US fund files. Positions below 0.001% of net assets are dropped; weights are normalised to each filing's own total.

Unit investment trusts including SPY and DIA do not file N-PORT, so no overlap can be computed for them. Where a comparison is missing from this site, that is usually why rather than an oversight.

Overlap says what is held in common, not what will move together. Two funds with no shared holdings can still fall together, and the effective holding count takes no account of correlation. All 275 pairs are in the concentration dataset, and every fund's own history is on its fund page.