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BND vs. QQQ

Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF

BND
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Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1

QQQ
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Top 10 comparisons with BND:
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BND
Correlation
With:
QQQ
Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1
SwitchAGGBlackRock Institutional Trust Company N.A. - iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF1.00SCHZSchwab Strategic Trust - Schwab US Aggregate Bond ETF0.99EAGGiShares Trust - iShares ESG Aware U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF0.99SPABSPDR Series Trust - SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF0.99AVIGAmerican Century ETF Trust - Avantis Core Fixed Income ETF0.99BKAGBNY Mellon ETF Trust - BNY Mellon Core Bond ETF0.99BIVVanguard Group, Inc. - Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond ETF0.99FLCBFranklin Templeton ETF Trust - Franklin U.S. Core Bond ETF0.98IUSBBlackRock Institutional Trust Company N.A. - iShares Core Total USD Bond Market ETF0.98NUBDNuveen Fund Advisors LLC - NuShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF0.98

Top 10 shared holdings

The top 10 holdings shared by BND and QQQ:

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Performance Measures**

for the time period Apr 10, 2007 to Dec 5, 2025

Returns

1M Trailing Return:

3M Trailing Return:

BND

0.5%

0.9%

QQQ

0.4%

8.7%

Diff.

+0.1%

-7.8%

Measures of Risk or Volatility

Max Drawdown:

Standard Deviation:

BND

-18.1%

5.2%

QQQ

-53.4%

22.4%

Diff.

+35.3%

-17.2%

Measures of Risk-Adjusted Performance

Sharpe Ratio:

Calmar Ratio:

BND

0.62

0.17

QQQ

0.78

0.30

Diff.

-0.16

-0.13

BNDVanguard Total Bond Market ETF
QQQInvesco QQQ Trust, Series 1

What is BND?

BND Invests in more than 3000 bonds representative of the broad U.S. investment-grade market. Goal is to keep pace with U.S. bond market returns. Offers relatively high potential for investment income; share value tends to rise and fall modestly. More appropriate for medium- or long-term goals where you re looking for a reliable income stream. Appropriate for diversifying the risks of stocks in a portfolio.

Snapshot
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BND Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF
QQQ Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1
Inception date
Apr 3, 2007
Mar 10, 1999
Expense ratio
0.03%
0.2%
BND has a lower expense ratio than QQQ by 0.17%. This can indicate that it’s cheaper to invest in BND than QQQ.
Type
US Bonds
US Equities
BND targets investing in US Bonds, while QQQ targets investing in US Equities.
Fund owner
Vanguard
Invesco
BND is managed by Vanguard, while QQQ is managed by Invesco.
Volume (1m avg. daily)
$433,296,798
$17,559,045,883
Both BND and QQQ are considered high-volume assets. They’re less likely to be affected by issues like slippage and failed orders on Composer than low-volume assets.
AUM
$94,675,540,467
$197,956,569,440
BND has more assets under management than QQQ by $103,281,028,973. Higher AUM can be associated with better liquidity and lower slippage in trading.
Associated index
Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index
Nasdaq 100 Index
BND is based off of the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index, while QQQ is based off of the Nasdaq 100 Index
Inverse/Leveraged
No
No
Neither BND nor QQQ use an inverse or leveraged strategy.
Passive/Active
Passive
Passive
BND and QQQ both use a Passive investing strategy. In an actively managed fund, the fund manager makes decisions about how funds are invested. A passively managed fund typically tries to track or follow a market index.
Dividend
No
No
BND and QQQ may offer dividends. The frequency and yield of the dividend may not be the same.
Prospectus
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QQQ may issue a K1, while BND does not. You can find non-K1 alternatives for QQQ in its “Related ETFs” section.

Trading Strategies
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Category

Semiconductors, Leveraged ETFs, Tactical, Volatility-aware, Mean-reversion, Momentum, Risk-managed

OOS Cumulative Return

1489.11%

Trading Strategies
Related toQQQ

QQQ EMA Balanced

Category

Trend-following, momentum, tactical allocation, equities, ETFs, large-cap tech, risk-on/risk-off, daily rebalance

OOS Cumulative Return

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