# BND (Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF)

Vanguard · Bond ETFs · Intermediate core bond · data as of Oct 28, 2026

BND paid $0.2485 a share, ex-date Oct 1, 2026, and 3.9% of its price in cash over the year to Oct 28, 2026.

Promise check: Delivered. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BND returned −1.3% against −1.4% for AGG, on Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. Fees aside, BND finished 0.11 points ahead of AGG. https://etfiq.com/promise-index/bonds/

BND tracks an index of US aggregate bonds and returned −1.3% over the past year.

## Key facts

- BND, total return, 1 year: −1.3%, as of Oct 28, 2026.
- BND, expense ratio: 0.03%, as of Apr 28, 2026.
- BND, holdings: 16301, as of Sep 30, 2026.
- BND, below its high: −3.5%, as of Oct 28, 2026.
- BND, 12-month yield, capital gains included, on its starting price: 3.9%, as of Oct 28, 2026.
- BND, last payment (paid monthly), ex-date Oct 1, 2026: $0.2485, as of Oct 1, 2026.
- BND, net assets: $161.4bn (the issuer’s own number for this ETF, month end, as of Sep 30, 2026).

## BND over each window to Oct 28, 2026

| Window | Total return | Benchmark (AGG) | Gap to AGG |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 month | +1.7% | +1.7% | 0.0 pts |
| 3 months | −0.6% | −0.7% | +0.1 pts |
| 6 months | −1.0% | −1.1% | +0.1 pts |
| Year to date | −0.9% | −1.0% | +0.1 pts |
| 1 year | −1.3% | −1.4% | +0.1 pts |
| 3 years | +16.1% | +16.2% | −0.1 pts |
| 5 years | −1.4% | −1.3% | −0.1 pts |
| 10 years | +15.0% | +14.6% | +0.4 pts |
| Since launch | +75.5% | not available | not available |
| Since launch, annualised | +2.9% | – | – |

## BND key stats

- 52-week high, daily closes to Oct 28, 2026: $75.17 on Feb 27, 2026 (computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices)
- 52-week low, daily closes to Oct 28, 2026: $69.88 on Oct 5, 2026 (computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices)
- Close on Oct 28, 2026, within that range: $71.19, 25% of the way from the low to the high (computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices)
- Beta to its benchmark, 1 year: 0.97, against AGG (computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices)
- R-squared, the same days: 0.99 (computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices)
- Beta and R-squared measured over: 251 daily total returns, Oct 29, 2025 to Oct 28, 2026 (computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices)
- Holdings: 16301
- Top ten weight: 4.5%

## BND trading

- Not scored.
- $1,000: at least $0.07, 0.007%, one way, half a one-cent tick.
- $10,000: at least $0.70, 0.007%, one way, half a one-cent tick.
- Premium to NAV at the Oct 27 close: +0.04%; 95% of days within ±0.08%.
- Limit: midpoint + 1¢ to buy, midpoint − 1¢ to sell. At the Oct 27 close of $71.31, that’s $71.32 to buy and $71.30 to sell.
- The full trading page: https://etfiq.com/funds/bnd/trading/

## Every published field

| Field | Value | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What it tracks | Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index | ETFIQ |
| Fund type | Bond fund | ETFIQ |
| Category | Bonds · Intermediate core bond | ETFIQ |
| Expense ratio | 0.03% | 485BPOS XBRL, Apr 28, 2026 |
| Price | $71.19 | ETFIQ |
| First traded | Apr 10, 2007 | ETFIQ |
| Net assets | $161.4bn | the issuer’s own number for this ETF, month end, as of Sep 30, 2026 |
| Benchmark | Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index, measured by AGG, which tracks the closely related Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index | ETFIQ, from its filings |
| Benchmark named in | its prospectus, 485BPOS, Apr 28, 2026 | ETFIQ |
| BND, 1 year to Oct 28, 2026 | −1.3% | ETFIQ |
| AGG, the same days | −1.4% | ETFIQ |
| Against its benchmark, 1 year | +0.1 pts | ETFIQ |
| Below its high | −3.5% | ETFIQ |
| Holdings | 16301 | ETFIQ |
| Top ten weight | 4.5% | ETFIQ |
| Holdings as of | Sep 30, 2026 | the issuer’s month-end file |

## Money in and out, to Jun 30, 2026

Monthly data only. Jun 2026: +$3.7bn, from SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone.

Computed by ETFIQ from the change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s NAV. Every day and month: <https://etfiq.com/data/flows/funds/bnd.json>. Method: https://etfiq.com/methodology/flows

## Questions

### How has BND performed?

Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BND returned −1.3% with distributions reinvested, against −1.4% for its benchmark, the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index, measured by the closely related Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. Over three years the number is +16.1%.

### What does BND cost?

The prospectus expense ratio is 0.03% a year.

### How far is BND below its high?

3.5% below its high of Aug 6, 2020, measured on the reinvested series to Oct 28, 2026.

### What dividend does BND pay?

BND pays monthly. The last distribution was $0.2485 a share, which went ex on Oct 1, 2026.

### What is the dividend yield of BND?

Over the 12 months to Oct 28, 2026, BND paid cash distributions equal to 3.9% of its price at the start of the period. Its latest payment was $0.2485 a share, ex-date Oct 1, 2026.

### What is the expense ratio of BND?

BND's expense ratio is 0.03% a year, read from 485BPOS XBRL, Apr 28, 2026.


## Cite this page

ETFIQ, BND, bond fund, data as of Oct 28, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/bnd
Free to use with attribution for data ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. The underlying files are at <https://etfiq.com/data/>.

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