ETF comparison
SPLB vs VCLT
Both US Corporate Bond.
State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,558 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPLB and VCLT would leave roughly 62.5% 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
VCLT is 1 bps cheaper than SPLB. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SPLB.
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 SPLB vs VCLT.
Top shared holdings
2,558 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPLB | In VCLT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV | 0.35% | 0.37% | 0.35% |
| 2 | CVS HEALTH CORP | 0.34% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 3 | META PLATFORMS INC | 0.26% | 0.28% | 0.26% |
| 4 | PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER | 0.26% | 0.27% | 0.26% |
| 5 | BOEING CO | 0.25% | 0.27% | 0.25% |
| 6 | META PLATFORMS INC | 0.27% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 7 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.20% | 0.22% | 0.20% |
| 8 | AT&T INC | 0.19% | 0.23% | 0.19% |
| 9 | AT&T INC | 0.18% | 0.23% | 0.18% |
| 10 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.18% | 0.21% | 0.18% |
| 11 | MICROSOFT CORP | 0.18% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 12 | APPLE INC | 0.17% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
Only in SPLB
381 total- SPACE EXPLORATION TECH 0.24%
- VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS 0.23%
- NVIDIA CORP 0.16%
- SPACE EXPLORATION TECH 0.16%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 0.16%
- ASTRAZENECA PLC 0.15%
- VODAFONE GROUP PLC 0.14%
- BARRICK NA FINANCE LLC 0.13%
- DELL INT LLC / EMC CORP 0.11%
- META PLATFORMS INC 0.11%
Only in VCLT
217 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.16%
- AstraZeneca PLC 0.13%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.13%
- BAT Capital Corp 0.13%
- Verizon Communications Inc 0.12%
- Home Depot Inc/The 0.11%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.11%
- TotalEnergies Capital International SA 0.11%
- Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
- Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
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- SPLB vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 23.5%
- SPLB vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 8.4%
- SPLB vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 7.6%
- SPLB vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 7.4%
More comparisons with VCLT
- VCLT vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 59.0%
- VCLT vs LQD · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 32.3%
- VCLT vs VTC · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares 22.2%
- VCLT vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 20.5%
- VCLT vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 8.4%
- VCLT vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 7.2%
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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