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VCSH vs VGSH

US Corporate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VCSH and VGSH would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

VCSH unmatched 97.9% Shared 0.0% VGSH unmatched 99.0%

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.

In VCSH only
2,998 positions
Shared
1 positions
In VGSH only
90 positions

Side by side

VCSH

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Corporate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$50.87B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
4.54%
Top-10 conc.
2.6%
VGSH

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Treasury (Short)

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$39.49B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
3.77%
Top-10 conc.
13.9%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
97
51
Tax efficiency
58
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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VCSH sub-score VGSH

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 VCSH vs VGSH.

Top shared holdings

1 shared in total
# Holding In VCSH In VGSH Overlap
1 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.02% 0.99% 0.02%

Only in VCSH

2,998 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.83%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.23%
  • AbbVie Inc 0.21%
  • CVS Health Corp 0.20%
  • T-Mobile USA Inc 0.19%
  • Boeing Co/The 0.19%
  • Wells Fargo & Co 0.18%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.18%
  • Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.17%
  • Amgen Inc 0.17%

Only in VGSH

90 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%

Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.

Open VCSH or VGSH at a brokerage

Both funds trade commission-free at major US brokerages.

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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.