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IGSB vs VTC

Both US Corporate Bond.

iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
28.3 %

1,679 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGSB and VTC would leave roughly 28.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

IGSB only 77.4% Shared 28.3% VTC only 70.7%
In IGSB only
2,876 positions
Shared
1,679 positions
In VTC only
3,154 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
$22.34B
TTM yield
4.59%
Top-10 conc.
8.0%
VTC

Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Corporate Bond

81 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$1.76B
TTM yield
4.97%
Top-10 conc.
1.5%

Sub-score comparison

96
Cost
97
51
Tax efficiency
51
100
Liquidity
67
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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IGSB sub-score VTC

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

Cost difference

VTC 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 VTC.

Top shared holdings

1,679 shared in total
# Holding In IGSB In VTC Overlap
1 GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.15% 0.14% 0.14%
2 ABBVIE INC 0.14% 0.09% 0.09%
3 DEUTSCHE TELEKOM INT FIN 0.10% 0.09% 0.09%
4 AMGEN INC 0.10% 0.09% 0.09%
5 T-MOBILE USA INC 0.18% 0.09% 0.09%
6 WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.08% 0.14% 0.08%
7 CITIGROUP INC 0.09% 0.08% 0.08%
8 BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.08% 0.16% 0.08%
9 GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.08% 0.08% 0.08%
10 WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.08% 0.07% 0.07%
11 ABBVIE INC 0.07% 0.08% 0.07%
12 MORGAN STANLEY 0.07% 0.09% 0.07%

Only in IGSB

2,876 total
  • BlackRock Funds III 6.53%
  • EAGLE FUNDING LUXCO SARL 0.32%
  • CVS HEALTH CORP 0.13%
  • MARS INC 0.12%
  • BOEING CO 0.12%
  • CITIGROUP INC 0.11%
  • WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.10%
  • MICROSOFT CORP 0.09%
  • BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.09%
  • MORGAN STANLEY 0.09%

Only in VTC

3,154 total
  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.13%
  • Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.11%
  • Morgan Stanley 0.10%
  • Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
  • Burlington Resources LLC 0.10%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 0.10%
  • Microsoft Corp 0.10%
  • Amgen Inc 0.09%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.09%
  • CVS Health Corp 0.09%

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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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