ETF comparison
LQD vs VCIT
Both US Corporate Bond.
iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,070 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of LQD and VCIT would leave roughly 32.6% 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
VCIT is 11 bps cheaper than LQD. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/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 VCIT.
Top shared holdings
1,070 shared in total| # | Holding | In LQD | In VCIT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | META PLATFORMS INC | 0.16% | 0.26% | 0.16% |
| 2 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.14% | 0.29% | 0.14% |
| 3 | SPACE EXPLORATION TECH | 0.14% | 0.26% | 0.14% |
| 4 | META PLATFORMS INC | 0.14% | 0.25% | 0.14% |
| 5 | SPACE EXPLORATION TECH | 0.14% | 0.27% | 0.14% |
| 6 | ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV | 0.13% | 0.25% | 0.13% |
| 7 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.13% | 0.16% | 0.13% |
| 8 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.12% | 0.26% | 0.12% |
| 9 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.12% | 0.13% | 0.12% |
| 10 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.11% | 0.13% | 0.11% |
| 11 | ORACLE CORP | 0.11% | 0.25% | 0.11% |
| 12 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | 0.11% | 0.24% | 0.11% |
Only in LQD
2,095 total- ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV 0.18%
- CVS HEALTH CORP 0.17%
- T-MOBILE USA INC 0.17%
- SPACE EXPLORATION TECH 0.17%
- CHARTER COMM OPT LLC/CAP 0.15%
- CHARTER COMM OPT LLC/CAP 0.15%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.14%
- AMAZON.COM INC 0.14%
- PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER 0.14%
- META PLATFORMS INC 0.14%
Only in VCIT
1,263 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.23%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.21%
- Citigroup Inc 0.19%
- Bank of America Corp 0.18%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.17%
- Citigroup Inc 0.17%
- Bank of America Corp 0.16%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.15%
- Citigroup Inc 0.14%
- Morgan Stanley 0.14%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with LQD
- LQD vs VCLT · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 30.6%
- LQD vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 21.2%
- LQD vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 20.1%
- LQD vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 14.2%
- LQD vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 13.4%
- LQD vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 12.9%
More comparisons with VCIT
- VCIT vs VTC · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares 26.2%
- VCIT vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 21.0%
- VCIT vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 11.1%
- VCIT vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 6.7%
- VCIT vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 6.6%
- VCIT vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 6.2%
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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