ETF comparison
LQD vs VCSH
Both US Corporate Bond.
iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
761 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of LQD and VCSH would leave roughly 20.1% 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
VCSH 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 VCSH.
Top shared holdings
761 shared in total| # | Holding | In LQD | In VCSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.17% | 0.19% | 0.17% |
| 2 | SPACE EXPLORATION TECH | 0.17% | 0.22% | 0.17% |
| 3 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.14% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 4 | ABBVIE INC | 0.12% | 0.20% | 0.12% |
| 5 | BOEING CO | 0.11% | 0.19% | 0.11% |
| 6 | DEUTSCHE TELEKOM INT FIN | 0.11% | 0.12% | 0.11% |
| 7 | CITIGROUP INC | 0.11% | 0.16% | 0.11% |
| 8 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.11% | 0.19% | 0.11% |
| 9 | META PLATFORMS INC | 0.10% | 0.12% | 0.10% |
| 10 | NVIDIA CORP | 0.10% | 0.16% | 0.10% |
| 11 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.10% | 0.16% | 0.10% |
| 12 | ORACLE CORP | 0.10% | 0.15% | 0.10% |
Only in LQD
2,404 total- ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV 0.18%
- CVS HEALTH CORP 0.17%
- META PLATFORMS INC 0.16%
- CHARTER COMM OPT LLC/CAP 0.15%
- CHARTER COMM OPT LLC/CAP 0.15%
- AMAZON.COM INC 0.14%
- SPACE EXPLORATION TECH 0.14%
- META PLATFORMS INC 0.14%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.14%
- PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER 0.14%
Only in VCSH
2,302 total- Bank of America Corp 0.23%
- CVS Health Corp 0.19%
- Wells Fargo & Co 0.18%
- Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.17%
- Amgen Inc 0.16%
- Cigna Group/The 0.16%
- AerCap Ireland Capital DAC / AerCap Global Aviation Trust 0.16%
- Bank of America Corp 0.16%
- Goldman Sachs Bank USA/New York NY 0.15%
- Wells Fargo & Co 0.14%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with LQD
- 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%
- LQD vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 12.0%
- LQD vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- LQD vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with VCSH
- VCSH vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 10.7%
- VCSH vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 9.2%
- VCSH vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 9.1%
- VCSH vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 8.3%
- VCSH vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 2.5%
- VCSH vs VCIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.7%
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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