ETF comparison
VCLTvsVTC
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 roughly22.2%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 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 Ltd0.16%
- BAT Capital Corp0.13%
- T-Mobile USA Inc0.12%
- International Business Machines Corp0.11%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond0.11%
- Citigroup Inc0.11%
- MPLX LP0.11%
- Johnson & Johnson0.10%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc0.10%
- Walt Disney Co/The0.10%
Only in VTC
3,639 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond0.32%
- Bank of America Corp0.20%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The0.14%
- Bank of America Corp0.14%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The0.13%
- Amazon.com Inc0.12%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc0.10%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The0.10%
- Meta Platforms Inc0.10%
- Oracle Corp0.10%
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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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