ETF comparison
LQD vs USIG
Both US Corporate Bond.
iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
3,153 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of LQD and USIG would leave roughly 42.5% 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
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Cost difference
USIG 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 LQD vs USIG.
Top shared holdings
3,153 shared in total| # | Holding | In LQD | In USIG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHARTER COMM OPT LLC/CAP | 0.15% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 2 | ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV | 0.18% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 3 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.17% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 4 | CVS HEALTH CORP | 0.17% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 5 | SPACE EXPLORATION TECH | 0.17% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 6 | CHARTER COMM OPT LLC/CAP | 0.15% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 7 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.14% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 8 | META PLATFORMS INC | 0.13% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 9 | ABBVIE INC | 0.12% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.14% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 11 | SPACE EXPLORATION TECH | 0.14% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | SPACE EXPLORATION TECH | 0.14% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
Only in LQD
12 total- INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE 0.03%
- INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE 0.03%
- INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE 0.03%
- INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE 0.03%
- INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE 0.02%
- INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE 0.02%
- INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE 0.02%
- INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE 0.02%
- FISERV INC 0.02%
- INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE 0.02%
Only in USIG
8,350 total- EAGLE FUNDING LUXCO SARL 0.08%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.08%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.06%
- CVS HEALTH CORP 0.06%
- MARS INC 0.05%
- WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.05%
- MARS INC 0.05%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.05%
- MORGAN STANLEY 0.04%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.04%
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- LQD vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 38.3%
- LQD vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond Index ETF 34.7%
- LQD vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 34.5%
- LQD vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond Index ETF 34.3%
- LQD vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 33.8%
- LQD vs VCIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 32.6%
More comparisons with USIG
- USIG vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 41.1%
- USIG vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 28.8%
- USIG vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 27.5%
- USIG vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 26.9%
- USIG vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 24.2%
- USIG vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 24.1%
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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