ETF comparison
GOVT vs VCIT
US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US Corporate Bond.
iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and VCIT would leave roughly 0.2% 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
VCIT is 2 bps cheaper than GOVT. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for GOVT.
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 GOVT vs VCIT.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In GOVT | In VCIT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.22% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.38% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 3 | United States of America | 1.20% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 4 | United States of America | 0.72% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in GOVT
210 total- United States of America 5.28%
- United States of America 2.95%
- United States of America 2.63%
- United States of America 2.08%
- United States of America 1.62%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.38%
- United States of America 1.37%
Only in VCIT
2,298 total- Amazon.com Inc 0.30%
- Boeing Co/The 0.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 0.27%
- Bank of America Corp 0.27%
- Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.27%
- Oracle Corp 0.27%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.27%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.25%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.24%
- Alphabet Inc 0.24%
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- GOVT vs VWOB · Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.1%
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More comparisons with VCIT
- VCIT vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.1%
- VCIT vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VCIT vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VCIT vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VCIT vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 0.0%
- VCIT vs ICVT · iShares Convertible Bond 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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.