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ETF comparison

TIP vs VCIT

TIPS vs US Corporate Bond.

iShares TIPS Bond ETF · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

TIP unmatched 99.4% Shared 0.0% VCIT unmatched 98.8%

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 TIP only
48 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VCIT only
2,302 positions

Side by side

TIP

iShares TIPS Bond ETF

iShares · TIPS

80 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.18%
Net assets
$14.23B
TTM yield
4.43%
Top-10 conc.
35.7%
VCIT

Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Corporate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$68.65B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
5.03%
Top-10 conc.
2.7%

Sub-score comparison

82
Cost
97
49
Tax efficiency
50
100
Liquidity
100
N/A
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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TIP sub-score VCIT

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

Cost difference

VCIT is 15 bps cheaper than TIP. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/yr more in fees for TIP.

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 TIP vs VCIT.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in TIP

48 total
  • United States of America 3.99%
  • United States of America 3.94%
  • United States of America 3.92%
  • United States of America 3.71%
  • United States of America 3.55%
  • United States of America 3.37%
  • United States of America 3.32%
  • United States of America 3.31%
  • United States of America 3.29%
  • United States of America 3.29%

Only in VCIT

2,302 total
  • Amazon.com Inc 0.30%
  • Boeing Co/The 0.28%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 0.27%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.27%
  • Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.27%
  • Oracle Corp 0.27%
  • Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.27%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.25%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.24%
  • Alphabet Inc 0.24%

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.