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ETF comparison

IGSB vs VCIT

Both US Corporate Bond.

iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.1 %

42 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGSB and VCIT would leave roughly 0.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

IGSB unmatched 98.7% Shared 0.1% VCIT unmatched 98.5%

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 IGSB only
4,680 positions
Shared
42 positions
In VCIT only
2,291 positions

Side by side

IGSB

iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

iShares · US Corporate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.040%
Net assets
$23.78B
TTM yield
4.30%
Top-10 conc.
1.5%
VCIT

Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Corporate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$70.82B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
4.61%
Top-10 conc.
2.6%

Sub-score comparison

96
Cost
97
52
Tax efficiency
51
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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IGSB sub-score VCIT

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VCIT is 1 bps cheaper than IGSB. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for IGSB.

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 VCIT.

Top shared holdings

42 shared in total
# Holding In IGSB In VCIT Overlap
1 GENERAL MOTORS FINL CO 0.02% 0.04% 0.02%
2 AEP TEXAS INC 0.02% 0.02% 0.02%
3 CVS HEALTH CORP 0.02% 0.01% 0.01%
4 CENTERPOINT ENERGY RES 0.01% 0.01% 0.01%
5 FEDEX CORP 0.01% 0.01% 0.01%
6 YALE UNIVERSITY 0.01% 0.01% 0.01%
7 SOUTHERN CO GAS CAPITAL 0.01% 0.01% 0.01%
8 DOMINION ENERGY INC 0.01% 0.04% 0.01%
9 BLUE OWL CAPITAL CORP 0.00% 0.02% 0.00%
10 ERP OPERATING LP 0.02% 0.00% 0.00%
11 CEDARS-SINAI HEALTH SYS 0.00% 0.01% 0.00%
12 ROCKWELL AUTOMATION 0.00% 0.01% 0.00%

Only in IGSB

4,680 total
  • EAGLE FUNDING LUXCO SARL 0.29%
  • T-MOBILE USA INC 0.17%
  • SPACE EXPLORATION TECH 0.15%
  • AMAZON.COM INC 0.13%
  • ABBVIE INC 0.13%
  • MARS INC 0.12%
  • CVS HEALTH CORP 0.12%
  • AMAZON.COM INC 0.12%
  • NVIDIA CORP 0.11%
  • BOEING CO 0.11%

Only in VCIT

2,291 total
  • Amazon.com Inc 0.29%
  • Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.27%
  • Boeing Co/The 0.26%
  • Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.26%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.26%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 0.26%
  • Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.26%
  • Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.25%
  • Oracle Corp 0.25%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 0.25%

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/.

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.