ETF comparison
LQD vs SPIB
Both US Corporate Bond.
iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
1,698 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of LQD and SPIB would leave roughly 35.1% 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
State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF
State Street · US Corporate Bond
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SPIB is 10 bps cheaper than LQD. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for LQD.
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 LQD vs SPIB.
Top shared holdings
1,698 shared in total| # | Holding | In LQD | In SPIB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.13% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 2 | META PLATFORMS INC | 0.11% | 0.12% | 0.11% |
| 3 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | 0.11% | 0.13% | 0.11% |
| 4 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.16% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 5 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.11% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 6 | META PLATFORMS INC | 0.16% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 7 | ABBVIE INC | 0.13% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 8 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.12% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 9 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.15% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 10 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.09% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 11 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS | 0.09% | 0.10% | 0.09% |
| 12 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.12% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
Only in LQD
1,437 total- ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV 0.20%
- CVS HEALTH CORP 0.17%
- 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%
- AT&T INC 0.13%
- AT&T INC 0.13%
- ORACLE CORP 0.13%
Only in SPIB
3,447 total- MORGAN STANLEY BANK NA 0.54%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 0.26%
- CHARLES SCHWAB CORP 0.24%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.23%
- AT&T INC 0.23%
- MORGAN STANLEY PVT BANK 0.22%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.20%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.20%
- AMAZON.COM INC 0.19%
- PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER 0.19%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with LQD
- LQD vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 34.9%
- LQD vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 34.5%
- LQD vs VCIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 32.5%
- LQD vs VCLT · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 32.3%
- LQD vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 20.7%
- LQD vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 19.4%
More comparisons with SPIB
- SPIB vs VCIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 34.1%
- SPIB vs SPSB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF 27.1%
- SPIB vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 15.4%
- SPIB vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 14.6%
- SPIB vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 14.3%
- SPIB vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 11.9%
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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