ETF comparison
LQD vs VCSH
Both US Corporate Bond.
iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
734 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of LQD and VCSH would leave roughly 19.4% 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 11 bps cheaper than LQD. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/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 VCSH.
Top shared holdings
734 shared in total| # | Holding | In LQD | In VCSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.16% | 0.19% | 0.16% |
| 2 | ABBVIE INC | 0.13% | 0.21% | 0.13% |
| 3 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.13% | 0.15% | 0.13% |
| 4 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | 0.11% | 0.18% | 0.11% |
| 5 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.11% | 0.16% | 0.11% |
| 6 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.11% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 7 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.09% | 0.13% | 0.09% |
| 8 | BOEING CO | 0.09% | 0.19% | 0.09% |
| 9 | META PLATFORMS INC | 0.11% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 10 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.09% | 0.13% | 0.09% |
| 11 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS | 0.09% | 0.12% | 0.09% |
| 12 | CITIGROUP INC | 0.09% | 0.15% | 0.09% |
Only in LQD
2,401 total- ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV 0.20%
- CVS HEALTH CORP 0.17%
- 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%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.14%
Only in VCSH
2,265 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.83%
- Bank of America Corp 0.23%
- CVS Health Corp 0.20%
- Wells Fargo & Co 0.18%
- Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.17%
- Amgen Inc 0.17%
- Cigna Group/The 0.16%
- AerCap Ireland Capital DAC / AerCap Global Aviation Trust 0.16%
- Bank of America Corp 0.16%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.15%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with LQD
- LQD vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 15.0%
- LQD vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 13.6%
- LQD vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 12.8%
- LQD vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 12.5%
- LQD vs SPSB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.4%
- LQD vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
More comparisons with VCSH
- VCSH vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 10.9%
- VCSH vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 9.4%
- VCSH vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 8.8%
- VCSH vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 8.7%
- VCSH vs VCIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 1.0%
- VCSH vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.9%
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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