ETF comparison
USIG vs VCLT
Both US Corporate Bond.
iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,747 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of USIG and VCLT would leave roughly 20.5% 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 USIG. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for USIG.
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 USIG vs VCLT.
Top shared holdings
2,747 shared in total| # | Holding | In USIG | In VCLT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV | 0.09% | 0.37% | 0.09% |
| 2 | CVS HEALTH CORP | 0.08% | 0.33% | 0.08% |
| 3 | META PLATFORMS INC | 0.06% | 0.28% | 0.06% |
| 4 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.06% | 0.15% | 0.06% |
| 5 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.06% | 0.21% | 0.06% |
| 6 | PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER | 0.06% | 0.27% | 0.06% |
| 7 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.06% | 0.14% | 0.06% |
| 8 | BOEING CO | 0.06% | 0.27% | 0.06% |
| 9 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.06% | 0.14% | 0.06% |
| 10 | AT&T INC | 0.06% | 0.23% | 0.06% |
| 11 | CVS HEALTH CORP | 0.05% | 0.23% | 0.05% |
| 12 | AT&T INC | 0.05% | 0.23% | 0.05% |
Only in USIG
8,711 total- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.09%
- EAGLE FUNDING LUXCO SARL 0.08%
- T-MOBILE USA INC 0.07%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.07%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.06%
- CVS HEALTH CORP 0.06%
- ABBVIE INC 0.06%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.06%
- ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV 0.06%
- PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER 0.05%
Only in VCLT
28 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.13%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.11%
- BlackRock Funding Inc 0.08%
- Intercontinental Exchange Inc 0.08%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.08%
- Intercontinental Exchange Inc 0.08%
- United Airlines 2024-1 Class AA Pass Through Trust 0.05%
- Intercontinental Exchange Inc 0.05%
- Citigroup Inc 0.05%
- BlackRock Funding Inc 0.05%
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- USIG vs SPSB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF 15.1%
- USIG vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 13.9%
- USIG vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- USIG vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 0.0%
- USIG vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- USIG vs ICVT · iShares Convertible Bond ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with VCLT
- 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%
- VCLT vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 6.9%
- VCLT vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 6.9%
- VCLT vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 0.3%
- VCLT vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.3%
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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