ETF comparison
VCITvsVTC
Both US Corporate Bond.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,582 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VCIT and VTC would leave roughly25.8%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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 thecost calculator pre-filled with VCIT vs VTC.
Top shared holdings
1,582 shared in total| # | Holding | In VCIT | In VTC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.18% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 2 | Amazon.com Inc | 0.30% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 3 | Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc | 0.27% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 4 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.23% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 5 | Meta Platforms Inc | 0.27% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 6 | Oracle Corp | 0.27% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 7 | Morgan Stanley | 0.19% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 8 | Bank of America Corp | 0.21% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 9 | Bank of America Corp | 0.11% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 10 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.17% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 11 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.23% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 12 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.13% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
Only in VCIT
720 total- Citigroup Inc0.20%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond0.18%
- Bank of America Corp0.16%
- US Bancorp0.13%
- Citigroup Inc0.12%
- Royal Bank of Canada0.12%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co0.11%
- Duke Energy Carolinas LLC0.10%
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co0.10%
- Johnson & Johnson0.10%
Only in VTC
3,757 total- Bank of America Corp0.20%
- Bank of America Corp0.14%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The0.13%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc0.10%
- Morgan Stanley0.09%
- Wells Fargo & Co0.09%
- T-Mobile USA Inc0.09%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The0.09%
- Microsoft Corp0.09%
- AbbVie Inc0.09%
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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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