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IGSB vs VCSH

Both US Corporate Bond.

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

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
58.0 %

2,969 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGSB and VCSH would leave roughly 58.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

IGSB unmatched 40.8% Shared 58.0% VCSH unmatched 40.7%

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
1,753 positions
Shared
2,969 positions
In VCSH only
94 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%
VCSH

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Corporate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$52.92B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
4.16%
Top-10 conc.
1.9%

Sub-score comparison

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

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

Cost difference

VCSH 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 VCSH.

Top shared holdings

2,969 shared in total
# Holding In IGSB In VCSH Overlap
1 T-MOBILE USA INC 0.17% 0.19% 0.17%
2 SPACE EXPLORATION TECH 0.15% 0.22% 0.15%
3 BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.14% 0.23% 0.14%
4 AMAZON.COM INC 0.13% 0.19% 0.13%
5 ABBVIE INC 0.13% 0.20% 0.13%
6 CVS HEALTH CORP 0.12% 0.19% 0.12%
7 AMAZON.COM INC 0.12% 0.14% 0.12%
8 NVIDIA CORP 0.11% 0.16% 0.11%
9 BOEING CO 0.11% 0.19% 0.11%
10 GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.11% 0.14% 0.11%
11 BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.11% 0.16% 0.11%
12 PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER 0.11% 0.17% 0.11%

Only in IGSB

1,753 total
  • EAGLE FUNDING LUXCO SARL 0.29%
  • MARS INC 0.12%
  • BAYER US FINANCE II LLC 0.09%
  • QATAR ENERGY 0.08%
  • UBS GROUP AG 0.08%
  • MARS INC 0.08%
  • SAUDI ARABIAN OIL CO 0.08%
  • NTT FINANCE CORP 0.07%
  • TENCENT HOLDINGS LTD 0.07%
  • UBS GROUP AG 0.06%

Only in VCSH

94 total
  • Morgan Stanley 0.13%
  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.12%
  • Intercontinental Exchange Inc 0.07%
  • Intercontinental Exchange Inc 0.07%
  • Intercontinental Exchange Inc 0.07%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 0.06%
  • Digital Realty Trust LP 0.06%
  • Caterpillar Financial Services Corp 0.06%
  • HSBC Holdings PLC 0.06%
  • Royal Bank of Canada 0.06%

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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.