ETF comparison
GOVT vs VCSH
US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US Corporate Bond.
iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and VCSH would leave roughly 0.9% 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
VCSH 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 VCSH.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In GOVT | In VCSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 1.20% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.72% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in GOVT
212 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 VCSH
2,997 total- Bank of America Corp 0.23%
- AbbVie Inc 0.21%
- CVS Health Corp 0.20%
- T-Mobile USA Inc 0.19%
- Boeing Co/The 0.19%
- Wells Fargo & Co 0.18%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.18%
- Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.17%
- Amgen Inc 0.17%
- Cigna Group/The 0.16%
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- GOVT vs MUNI · PIMCO Intermediate Municipal Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.6%
- GOVT vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 0.5%
- GOVT vs VTC · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares 0.3%
- GOVT vs MINT · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.3%
- GOVT vs VCIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.2%
More comparisons with VCSH
- VCSH vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 0.8%
- VCSH vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.5%
- VCSH vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VCSH vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VCSH vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VCSH vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate 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.