ETF comparison
VCLT vs VTC
Both US Corporate Bond.
Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,700 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VCLT and VTC would leave roughly 22.2% 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 VCLT vs VTC.
Top shared holdings
1,700 shared in total| # | Holding | In VCLT | In VTC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc | 0.37% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 2 | Morgan Stanley | 0.16% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp | 0.16% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 4 | CVS Health Corp | 0.33% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | Amazon.com Inc | 0.26% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 6 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.21% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 7 | Meta Platforms Inc | 0.14% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 8 | Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc | 0.13% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 9 | Amazon.com Inc | 0.14% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 10 | AT&T Inc | 0.23% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 11 | Amgen Inc | 0.16% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 12 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.09% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
Only in VCLT
1,075 total- Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.16%
- BAT Capital Corp 0.13%
- T-Mobile USA Inc 0.12%
- International Business Machines Corp 0.11%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.11%
- Citigroup Inc 0.11%
- MPLX LP 0.11%
- Johnson & Johnson 0.10%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 0.10%
- Walt Disney Co/The 0.10%
Only in VTC
3,639 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.32%
- Bank of America Corp 0.20%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.14%
- Bank of America Corp 0.14%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.13%
- Amazon.com Inc 0.12%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.10%
- Meta Platforms Inc 0.10%
- Oracle Corp 0.10%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with VCLT
- VCLT vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 20.5%
- VCLT vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 8.4%
- VCLT vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 7.2%
- VCLT vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 6.9%
- VCLT vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 6.9%
- VCLT vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 0.3%
More comparisons with VTC
- 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%
- VTC vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.3%
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/.
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