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LQD vs VTC

Both US Corporate Bond.

iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
42.2 %

2,114 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of LQD and VTC would leave roughly 42.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

LQD only 64.2% Shared 42.2% VTC only 56.8%
In LQD only
979 positions
Shared
2,114 positions
In VTC only
2,719 positions

Side by side

LQD

iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

iShares · US Corporate Bond

85 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.14%
Net assets
$33.11B
TTM yield
4.59%
Top-10 conc.
9.6%
VTC

Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Corporate Bond

81 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$1.76B
TTM yield
4.97%
Top-10 conc.
1.5%

Sub-score comparison

86
Cost
97
51
Tax efficiency
51
100
Liquidity
67
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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LQD sub-score VTC

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VTC 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 VTC.

Top shared holdings

2,114 shared in total
# Holding In LQD In VTC Overlap
1 GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.17% 0.14% 0.14%
2 GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.11% 0.13% 0.11%
3 ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV 0.13% 0.11% 0.11%
4 ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV 0.20% 0.10% 0.10%
5 META PLATFORMS INC 0.10% 0.10% 0.10%
6 MICROSOFT CORP 0.09% 0.10% 0.09%
7 ABBVIE INC 0.15% 0.09% 0.09%
8 DEUTSCHE TELEKOM INT FIN 0.09% 0.09% 0.09%
9 CVS HEALTH CORP 0.17% 0.09% 0.09%
10 T-MOBILE USA INC 0.15% 0.09% 0.09%
11 AMGEN INC 0.08% 0.09% 0.08%
12 GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.08% 0.08% 0.08%

Only in LQD

979 total
  • BlackRock Funds III 8.20%
  • BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.12%
  • MICROSOFT CORP 0.09%
  • BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.09%
  • CITIGROUP INC 0.09%
  • WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.09%
  • BOEING CO 0.09%
  • BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.08%
  • MORGAN STANLEY 0.08%
  • BROADCOM INC 0.08%

Only in VTC

2,719 total
  • Bank of America Corp 0.16%
  • Wells Fargo & Co 0.14%
  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.13%
  • Wells Fargo & Co 0.12%
  • Burlington Resources LLC 0.10%
  • Colgate-Palmolive Co 0.10%
  • Truist Bank 0.10%
  • International Business Machines Corp 0.10%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.09%
  • Morgan Stanley 0.09%

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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.