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BND vs ORR: how they differ

Over the year ORR returned more, +20.4% to BND's −0.4%.

Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF and Militia Long/Short Equity ETF.

BND and ORR on the fields both publish, as of Sep 19, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
BND
Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF
ORR
Militia Long/Short Equity ETF
Where it sitsCore fundAlternatives ETF
IssuerVanguardMilitia
What it isTracks an index of US aggregate bondsLong-short equity
Total return, 1 year−0.4%+20.4%
S&P 500 over the same days+16.6%+16.6%
Gap to the S&P 500−17.0 pts+3.8 pts
Expense ratio0.03%not published
Holdings16296not filed
Net assets$163.3bn$367m

BND in plain words

BND tracks an index of US aggregate bonds. Over the year to Sep 18, 2026 it returned −0.4% with distributions reinvested, against +16.6% for the S&P 500 and +21.8% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.03% a year. It sat 3.9% below its high of Aug 6, 2020 on Sep 18, 2026.

ORR in plain words

ORR is a long-short equity fund. ETFIQ measures what every alternatives fund is sold on: whether it moves differently from the stock market. Over the year to Sep 18, 2026, its weekly returns had a correlation of +0.35 with the S&P 500’s and a beta of +0.42, so for each 1% the index moved it moved about 0.42% the same way. The S&P 500 fell in 22 of those 52 weeks, by 1.24% on average. In the same weeks ORR fell 0.18% on average, a down-week capture of 14.3%. Over the same 52 weeks ORR returned +21.4% and a Treasury bill fund +3.6%, so it finished 17.7 percentage points ahead of cash.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, BND or ORR?
In the year to Sep 19, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BND returned −0.4% and ORR returned +20.4%, so ORR returned more.
Are BND and ORR the same kind of fund?
No. BND is an index ETF and ORR is an alternatives ETF, so they are built for different jobs. The table compares what both publish: return, cost and what each actually holds.

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BND against ORR, ETFIQ, data as of Sep 19, 2026. Every figure is calculated from a named public source; the method is at etfiq.com/methodology. A comparison is not a recommendation.

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