ETF comparison
VCLT vs VGSH
US Corporate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VCLT 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
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 VGSH.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VCLT
2,775 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 VGSH
91 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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- VCLT vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VCLT vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF 62.5%
- VCLT vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 59.0%
- VCLT vs LQD · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 32.3%
- VCLT vs VTC · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares 22.2%
- VCLT vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 20.5%
More comparisons with VGSH
- VGSH vs VGIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGSH vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGSH vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGSH vs VTEB · Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGSH vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGSH vs VWOB · Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open VCLT or VGSH 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.