ETF comparison
VCIT vs VTC
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 roughly 25.8% 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%).
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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 Inc 0.20%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.18%
- Bank of America Corp 0.16%
- US Bancorp 0.13%
- Citigroup Inc 0.12%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.12%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.11%
- Duke Energy Carolinas LLC 0.10%
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co 0.10%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.10%
Only in VTC
3,757 total- Bank of America Corp 0.20%
- Bank of America Corp 0.14%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.13%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
- Morgan Stanley 0.09%
- Wells Fargo & Co 0.09%
- T-Mobile USA Inc 0.09%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.09%
- Microsoft Corp 0.09%
- AbbVie Inc 0.09%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with VCIT
- VCIT vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 20.9%
- VCIT vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 11.4%
- VCIT vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 7.0%
- VCIT vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 6.7%
- VCIT vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 6.5%
- VCIT vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 1.0%
More comparisons with VTC
- VTC vs VCLT · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 22.2%
- VTC vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 17.8%
- VTC vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 16.6%
- VTC vs SPSB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF 16.6%
- VTC vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 16.5%
- VTC vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 12.9%
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
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/methodology/.
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