ETF comparison
VCIT vs VGSH
US Corporate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VCIT and VGSH 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
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Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 VCIT vs VGSH.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In VCIT | In VGSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.01% | 0.99% | 0.01% |
Only in VCIT
2,301 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%
Only in VGSH
90 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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- VCIT vs SPSB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VCIT vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
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- VGSH vs BIL · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs BIV · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGSH vs BKLN · Invesco Senior Loan ETF 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/.
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.