ETF comparison
VCSHvsVTC
Both US Corporate Bond.
Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,821 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VCSH and VTC would leave roughly29.4%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — seewhat we don't scorefor 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 thecost calculator pre-filled with VCSH vs VTC.
Top shared holdings
1,821 shared in total| # | Holding | In VCSH | In VTC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.83% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 2 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.13% | 0.14% | 0.13% |
| 3 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.13% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 4 | Bank of America Corp | 0.11% | 0.20% | 0.11% |
| 5 | T-Mobile USA Inc | 0.19% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 6 | AbbVie Inc | 0.21% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 7 | Bank of America Corp | 0.16% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 8 | Morgan Stanley | 0.12% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 9 | Deutsche Telekom International Finance BV | 0.14% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | Amgen Inc | 0.17% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 11 | Broadcom Inc | 0.11% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 12 | Alphabet Inc | 0.08% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
Only in VCSH
1,178 total- Bank of America Corp0.16%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The0.15%
- Morgan Stanley0.14%
- Morgan Stanley0.13%
- Bank of America Corp0.13%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc0.12%
- Citibank NA0.12%
- Abbott Laboratories0.12%
- Morgan Stanley0.11%
- Wells Fargo & Co0.11%
Only in VTC
3,518 total- Amazon.com Inc0.12%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc0.10%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc0.10%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The0.10%
- Meta Platforms Inc0.10%
- Oracle Corp0.10%
- Morgan Stanley0.09%
- Microsoft Corp0.09%
- CVS Health Corp0.08%
- Morgan Stanley0.08%
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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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