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BNDW holdings

BNDW reports 3 holdings and behaves like 2 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-05-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-05-31
3 Positions reported
2 Effective holdings
1.5× Concentration multiple
100% Top ten weight

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: 100% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

The largest line in BNDW's filing is not a stock but Vanguard Total B, a equity position at 51.05% of net assets. Ten companies are 100% of the fund; the other -7 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, BNDW behaves like 2 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 20.0 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings BNDW has held roughly steady since 2019-11-30 (2 then, 2 now).

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

Every filing since 2019

27

Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, BNDW went from behaving like 2 equally weighted positions to 2 — 0% more, while its top ten went from 100% to 100% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 3 2 100% 51.05%
2026-02-28 3 2 100% 50.61%
2025-11-30 3 2 100% 51.44%
2025-08-31 3 2 100% 51.14%
2025-05-31 3 2 100% 50.72%
2025-02-28 3 2 100% 52.76%
2024-11-30 3 2 100% 51.63%
2024-08-31 3 2 100% 52.11%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 3 2 100% 51.86%
2024-02-29 3 2 100% 51.25%
2023-11-30 3 2 100% 51.74%
2023-08-31 3 2 100% 50.73%
2023-05-31 3 2 100% 50.81%
2023-02-28 3 2 100% 51.1%
2022-11-30 3 2 100% 52.54%
2022-08-31 3 2 100% 51.82%
2022-05-31 3 2 100% 50.74%
2022-02-28 3 2 100% 51.05%
2021-11-30 3 2 100% 52.11%
2021-08-31 3 2 100% 52.61%
2021-05-31 3 2 100% 53.26%
2021-02-28 3 2 100% 53.39%
2020-11-30 3 2 100% 52.73%
2020-08-31 3 2 100% 52.58%
2020-05-31 3 2 100% 50.99%
2020-02-29 3 2 100% 50.5%
2019-11-30 3 2 100% 51.21%

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.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-05-31

The 3 largest of 3 positions in BNDW's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: BNDW.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF51.05%51.0%
2Vanguard Total International Bond ETF48.95%100.0%
3Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.00%100.0%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of BNDW's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

3.6%Last twelve months filed
4%Whole series, compounded
4.0%Best month
-3.6%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: BNDW.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

3 positions became 3: 0 added (0.0% of the fund at the later date), 0 dropped (0.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 0.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of BNDW compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF50.61%51.05% Vanguard Total International Bond ETF49.39%48.95%
Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.00%0.00%

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31

100.00% equity as filed; 100.0% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

10

Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of BNDW (2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
AGGH Simplify Aggregate Bond ETF 5 1.1 100% 2026-06-30
HEGD Swan Hedged Equity US Large Cap ETF 9 1.2 100% 2026-05-31
TUA Simplify Short Term Treasury Futures Strategy ETF 7 1.3 * 100% 2026-06-30
CTA Simplify Managed Futures Strategy ETF 54 1.6 * 98.12% 2026-06-30
TMF Direxion Daily 20+ Year Treasury Bull 3X Shares 5 2 * 100% 2026-07-31
TNA Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3X Shares 11 2.2 * 99.16% 2026-07-31
BLUX Bluemonte Dynamic Total Market ETF 4 2.8 100% 2026-07-31
BUFQ FT Vest Laddered Nasdaq Buffer ETF 5 4 100% 2026-05-31
AVNM Avantis All International Markets Equity ETF 8 4 100% 2026-05-31
AVGE Avantis All Equity Markets ETF 15 4.3 95.34% 2026-05-31

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