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IGSB vs VGSH

US Corporate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).

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

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGSB and VGSH would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

IGSB unmatched 98.8% Shared 0.0% VGSH unmatched 98.9%

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
4,722 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VGSH only
91 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%
VGSH

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Treasury (Short)

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$41.38B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
3.45%
Top-10 conc.
14.2%

Sub-score comparison

96
Cost
97
52
Tax efficiency
59
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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IGSB sub-score VGSH

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

Cost difference

VGSH 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 VGSH.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in IGSB

4,722 total
  • EAGLE FUNDING LUXCO SARL 0.29%
  • T-MOBILE USA INC 0.17%
  • SPACE EXPLORATION TECH 0.15%
  • BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.14%
  • 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%

Only in VGSH

91 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.44%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.42%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.38%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.36%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.35%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.33%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.32%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.31%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.30%

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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.