ETF comparison
LQD vs VTC
Both US Corporate Bond.
iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,386 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of LQD and VTC would leave roughly 45.9% 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
VTC 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 VTC.
Top shared holdings
2,386 shared in total| # | Holding | In LQD | In VTC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV | 0.18% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 2 | ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV | 0.13% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 3 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.11% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 4 | META PLATFORMS INC | 0.16% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 5 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.17% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 6 | SPACE EXPLORATION TECH | 0.17% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 7 | ORACLE CORP | 0.11% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 8 | CVS HEALTH CORP | 0.17% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 9 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.09% | 0.10% | 0.09% |
| 10 | ABBVIE INC | 0.12% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 11 | ABBOTT LABORATORIES | 0.08% | 0.09% | 0.08% |
| 12 | MICROSOFT CORP | 0.10% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
Only in LQD
779 total- CHARTER COMM OPT LLC/CAP 0.15%
- CHARTER COMM OPT LLC/CAP 0.15%
- WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.09%
- MORGAN STANLEY 0.08%
- MORGAN STANLEY 0.08%
- MORGAN STANLEY 0.08%
- MORGAN STANLEY 0.07%
- PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER 0.07%
- ALPHABET INC 0.07%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 0.07%
Only in VTC
2,947 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.18%
- Bank of America Corp 0.15%
- Bank of America Corp 0.10%
- Amgen Inc 0.08%
- Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.08%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.08%
- Morgan Stanley 0.07%
- Morgan Stanley 0.07%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.07%
- Morgan Stanley 0.07%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with LQD
- LQD vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 42.5%
- 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%
More comparisons with VTC
- VTC vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond Index ETF 42.2%
- VTC vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 30.4%
- VTC vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 29.9%
- VTC vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 27.8%
- VTC vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 27.2%
- VTC vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 26.4%
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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