ETF comparison
CORP vs LQD
Both US Corporate Bond.
PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
543 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CORP and LQD would leave roughly 15.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
LQD is 27 bps cheaper than CORP. On a $100,000 position that's about $270/yr more in fees for CORP.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with CORP vs LQD.
Top shared holdings
543 shared in total| # | Holding | In CORP | In LQD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CVS HEALTH CORP | 0.16% | 0.17% | 0.16% |
| 2 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.26% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 3 | AT&T INC | 0.15% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 4 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.17% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 5 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.25% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 6 | AT&T INC | 0.28% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 7 | AT&T INC | 0.11% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 8 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.30% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 9 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | 0.18% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 10 | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.12% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | META PLATFORMS INC | 0.14% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 12 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.21% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
Only in CORP
911 total- United States Treasury 2.53%
- United States Treasury 2.26%
- United States Treasury 1.28%
- United States Treasury 1.23%
- United States Treasury 1.11%
- United States Treasury 0.95%
- United States Treasury 0.93%
- United States Treasury 0.58%
- GULFSTREAM NATURAL GAS 0.46%
- BNP PARIBAS 0.43%
Only in LQD
2,592 total- ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV 0.20%
- AMAZON.COM INC 0.15%
- PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER 0.15%
- META PLATFORMS INC 0.15%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.15%
- AMAZON.COM INC 0.14%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.13%
- ORACLE CORP 0.13%
- AMAZON.COM INC 0.13%
- WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.12%
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- CORP vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 13.9%
- CORP vs VTC · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares 12.9%
- CORP vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 12.6%
- CORP vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 12.2%
- CORP vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF 11.9%
- CORP vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 11.5%
More comparisons with LQD
- LQD vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 13.6%
- LQD vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 12.8%
- LQD vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 12.5%
- LQD vs SPSB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.4%
- LQD vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- LQD vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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