ETF comparison
VTC vs VTIP
US Corporate Bond vs TIPS.
Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VTC and VTIP would leave roughly 0.0% 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
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 VTC vs VTIP.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VTC
5,339 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%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.10%
- Meta Platforms Inc 0.10%
Only in VTIP
25 total- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.39%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.33%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.30%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.14%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.97%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.74%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.70%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.59%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with VTC
- VTC vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 47.8%
- VTC vs LQD · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 45.1%
- VTC vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF 42.0%
- VTC vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 30.1%
- VTC vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 29.4%
- VTC vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 27.9%
More comparisons with VTIP
- VTIP vs VTEB · Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTIP vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs VWOB · Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTIP vs ZROZ · PIMCO 25+ Year Zero Coupon U.S. Treasury Index Exchange-Traded Fund 0.0%
- VTIP vs STIP · iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF 94.0%
- VTIP vs TIPX · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-10 Year TIPS ETF 59.0%
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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