BND holdings

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 0.9% at a quoted market price (level 1), 30 issuer countries, 0.3% restricted securities.

BND's largest investment is Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund at 0.9% of net assets. US Treasury N/B and US Treasury N/B follow; the three together are 1.78%. Ten companies are 4.63% of the fund; the other 17,387 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, BND behaves like 877.7 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 3.7 times the median. Across 28 quarterly filings BND has become less concentrated: it behaved like 656.9 at 2019-09-30 and 877.7 at 2026-06-30. Between the 2026-03-31 and 2026-06-30 filings 530 positions were added and 467 dropped; 7.4% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable bond funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Between 2019-09-30 and 2026-06-30, BND went from behaving like 656.9 equally weighted positions to 877.7 — 34% more, while its top ten went from 5.77% to 4.63% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.

The 15 largest of 17,397 positions in BND's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: listed with the point-in-time files, available on request.

Share of BND's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of BND's own filings, 84 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.04 percentage points over 84 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: BND.json · all funds.

16,735 positions became 16,798: 530 added (5.3% of the fund at the later date), 467 dropped (4.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 7.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of BND compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

New: United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.33%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.25%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.21%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.19%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.19%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.18%). Gone: United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.31%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.29%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.23%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.21%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.19%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.18%).

0.9% of BND is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of BND (877.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

• 017 Expense ratio
• 016 Maximum drawdown
• 014 Duration
• 012 Standard deviation
• 009 Total return
• 007 Correlation
• 006 Rebalancing bands
• 004 Sequence-of-returns risk

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