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SPLB vs VGSH

US Corporate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).

State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPLB and VGSH would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SPLB unmatched 98.8% Shared 0.0% VGSH unmatched 99.0%

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.

In SPLB only
2,939 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VGSH only
91 positions

Side by side

SPLB

State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF

State Street · US Corporate Bond

78 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.040%
Net assets
$1.18B
TTM yield
5.77%
Top-10 conc.
2.9%
VGSH

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Treasury (Short)

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$39.49B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
3.77%
Top-10 conc.
13.9%

Sub-score comparison

96
Cost
97
49
Tax efficiency
58
60
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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SPLB sub-score VGSH

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

Cost difference

VGSH 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 VGSH.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in SPLB

2,939 total
  • ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV 0.35%
  • CVS HEALTH CORP 0.34%
  • AMAZON.COM INC 0.31%
  • META PLATFORMS INC 0.28%
  • CHARTER COMM OPT LLC/CAP 0.28%
  • META PLATFORMS INC 0.27%
  • BROADCOM INC 0.26%
  • META PLATFORMS INC 0.26%
  • PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER 0.26%
  • ORACLE CORP 0.25%

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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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/.

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.