ETF comparison
IGSB vs LQD
Both US Corporate Bond.
iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
777 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGSB and LQD would leave roughly 21.2% 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
IGSB is 10 bps cheaper than LQD. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for LQD.
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 IGSB vs LQD.
Top shared holdings
777 shared in total| # | Holding | In IGSB | In LQD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.17% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 2 | SPACE EXPLORATION TECH | 0.15% | 0.17% | 0.15% |
| 3 | ABBVIE INC | 0.13% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 4 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.12% | 0.14% | 0.12% |
| 5 | BOEING CO | 0.11% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 6 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.13% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 7 | CITIGROUP INC | 0.11% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 8 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.10% | 0.12% | 0.10% |
| 9 | DEUTSCHE TELEKOM INT FIN | 0.10% | 0.11% | 0.10% |
| 10 | NVIDIA CORP | 0.11% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.11% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 12 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.10% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
Only in IGSB
3,945 total- EAGLE FUNDING LUXCO SARL 0.29%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.14%
- MARS INC 0.12%
- CVS HEALTH CORP 0.12%
- SALESFORCE INC 0.11%
- PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER 0.11%
- WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.11%
- AMGEN INC 0.10%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.10%
- AERCAP IRELAND CAP/GLOBA 0.10%
Only in LQD
2,388 total- ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV 0.18%
- CVS HEALTH CORP 0.17%
- META PLATFORMS INC 0.16%
- CHARTER COMM OPT LLC/CAP 0.15%
- CHARTER COMM OPT LLC/CAP 0.15%
- AMAZON.COM INC 0.14%
- SPACE EXPLORATION TECH 0.14%
- META PLATFORMS INC 0.14%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.14%
- PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER 0.14%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with IGSB
- IGSB vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 11.7%
- IGSB vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 10.0%
- IGSB vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 9.9%
- IGSB vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 9.1%
- IGSB vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 1.3%
- IGSB vs VCIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.1%
More comparisons with LQD
- LQD vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 20.1%
- LQD vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 14.2%
- LQD vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 13.4%
- LQD vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 12.9%
- LQD vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 12.0%
- LQD vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
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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