ETF comparison
ICVT vs LQD
Both US Corporate Bond.
iShares Convertible Bond ETF · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ICVT and LQD would leave roughly 0.0% 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 6 bps cheaper than ICVT. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for ICVT.
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 ICVT vs LQD.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in ICVT
375 total- WESTERN DIGITAL CORP 2.96%
- ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING 2.02%
- LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC 1.45%
- COREWEAVE INC 1.05%
- BLOOM ENERGY CORP 1.03%
- NEBIUS GROUP NV 1.01%
- MKS INC 0.84%
- CLOUDFLARE INC 0.81%
- DOORDASH INC 0.81%
- CIENA CORP 0.80%
Only in LQD
3,135 total- ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV 0.20%
- CVS HEALTH CORP 0.17%
- T-MOBILE USA INC 0.16%
- META PLATFORMS INC 0.16%
- AMAZON.COM INC 0.15%
- PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER 0.15%
- META PLATFORMS INC 0.15%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.15%
- BOEING CO 0.14%
- AMAZON.COM INC 0.14%
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More comparisons with LQD
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- LQD vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- LQD vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open ICVT or LQD at a brokerage
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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.