ETF comparison
ICVT vs VGSH
US Corporate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
iShares Convertible Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ICVT and VGSH 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VGSH is 17 bps cheaper than ICVT. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/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 VGSH.
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 VGSH
91 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.24%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.40%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.35%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.31%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.30%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.29%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
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- ICVT vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 78.3%
- ICVT vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
- ICVT vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- ICVT vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
More comparisons with VGSH
- VGSH vs IEF · iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs IEI · iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs IGOV · iShares International Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open ICVT or VGSH 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.