ETF comparison
VCLT vs VGLT
US Corporate Bond vs US Treasury (Long).
Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VCLT and VGLT 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
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 VCLT vs VGLT.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In VCLT | In VGLT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.02% | 1.34% | 0.02% |
Only in VCLT
2,774 total- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.37%
- CVS Health Corp 0.33%
- Meta Platforms Inc 0.28%
- Boeing Co/The 0.27%
- Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.27%
- Amazon.com Inc 0.26%
- Oracle Corp 0.24%
- AT&T Inc 0.23%
- AT&T Inc 0.23%
- CVS Health Corp 0.23%
Only in VGLT
96 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.22%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.21%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.21%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.17%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.17%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.17%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.14%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.13%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
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- VCLT vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VCLT vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VCLT vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 0.0%
- VCLT vs ICVT · iShares Convertible Bond ETF 0.0%
- VCLT vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VCLT vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with VGLT
- VGLT vs ANGL · VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGLT vs BAB · Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGLT vs BIL · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF 0.0%
- VGLT vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 0.0%
- VGLT vs BIV · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGLT vs BKLN · Invesco Senior Loan ETF 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open VCLT or VGLT at a brokerage
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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.