ETF comparison
TLT vs VTC
US Treasury (Long) vs US Corporate Bond.
iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of TLT and VTC would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VTC is 12 bps cheaper than TLT. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for TLT.
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 TLT vs VTC.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in TLT
46 total- United States of America 4.58%
- United States of America 4.50%
- United States of America 4.46%
- United States of America 4.40%
- United States of America 4.15%
- United States of America 4.04%
- United States of America 4.03%
- United States of America 3.95%
- United States of America 3.94%
- United States of America 3.86%
Only in VTC
5,339 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.32%
- Bank of America Corp 0.20%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.14%
- Bank of America Corp 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%
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More comparisons with VTC
- VTC vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTC vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTC vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 47.8%
- VTC vs LQD · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 45.1%
- VTC vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF 42.0%
- VTC vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 30.1%
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.