ETF comparison
VCSH vs VTC
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 roughly 29.4% 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%).
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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 Corp 0.16%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.15%
- Morgan Stanley 0.14%
- Morgan Stanley 0.13%
- Bank of America Corp 0.13%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc 0.12%
- Citibank NA 0.12%
- Abbott Laboratories 0.12%
- Morgan Stanley 0.11%
- Wells Fargo & Co 0.11%
Only in VTC
3,518 total- Amazon.com Inc 0.12%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
- 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%
- Morgan Stanley 0.09%
- Microsoft Corp 0.09%
- CVS Health Corp 0.08%
- Morgan Stanley 0.08%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with VCSH
- VCSH vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 27.2%
- VCSH vs LQD · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 19.4%
- VCSH vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 10.9%
- VCSH vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 9.4%
- VCSH vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 8.8%
- VCSH vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 8.7%
More comparisons with VTC
- VTC vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 27.9%
- VTC vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 27.1%
- VTC vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 26.9%
- VTC vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF 26.1%
- VTC vs VCIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 25.8%
- VTC vs VCLT · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 22.2%
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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