ETF comparison
SPSB vs VTC
Both US Corporate Bond.
State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
896 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPSB and VTC would leave roughly 16.6% 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
VTC is 1 bps cheaper than SPSB. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SPSB.
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 SPSB vs VTC.
Top shared holdings
896 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPSB | In VTC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.22% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 2 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.20% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 3 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.09% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 4 | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.15% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | AMGEN INC | 0.25% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 6 | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.09% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 7 | ALPHABET INC | 0.18% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 8 | CITIGROUP INC | 0.28% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 9 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | 0.14% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 10 | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.21% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 11 | CITIGROUP INC | 0.42% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 12 | PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER | 0.37% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
Only in SPSB
703 total- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.33%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.30%
- FIDELITY NATL INFO SERV 0.29%
- LOWE'S COS INC 0.23%
- HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES 0.22%
- NVIDIA CORP 0.19%
- MORGAN STANLEY 0.18%
- MORGAN STANLEY PVT BANK 0.18%
- RIO TINTO FIN USA LTD 0.18%
- APPLE INC 0.17%
Only in VTC
4,443 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.32%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.14%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.13%
- Amazon.com Inc 0.12%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.10%
- Meta Platforms Inc 0.10%
- Oracle Corp 0.10%
- Morgan Stanley 0.09%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with SPSB
- SPSB vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 15.1%
- SPSB vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 7.8%
- SPSB vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 4.7%
- SPSB vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 4.6%
- SPSB vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 4.5%
- SPSB vs LQD · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.4%
More comparisons with VTC
- VTC vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 16.5%
- VTC vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 12.9%
- VTC vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.3%
- VTC vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTC vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTC vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
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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