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SHY vs VCIT

US Treasury (Short) vs US Corporate Bond.

iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHY and VCIT would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SHY unmatched 99.0% Shared 0.0% VCIT unmatched 98.6%

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.

In SHY only
90 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VCIT only
2,333 positions

Side by side

SHY

iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF

iShares · US Treasury (Short)

83 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$27.44B
TTM yield
3.30%
Top-10 conc.
15.4%
VCIT

Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Corporate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$70.82B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
4.61%
Top-10 conc.
2.6%

Sub-score comparison

85
Cost
97
59
Tax efficiency
51
100
Liquidity
100
N/A
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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SHY sub-score VCIT

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

Cost difference

VCIT is 12 bps cheaper than SHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for SHY.

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 SHY vs VCIT.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in SHY

90 total
  • United States of America 1.97%
  • United States of America 1.71%
  • United States of America 1.61%
  • United States of America 1.51%
  • United States of America 1.49%
  • United States of America 1.48%
  • United States of America 1.47%
  • United States of America 1.40%
  • United States of America 1.39%
  • United States of America 1.39%

Only in VCIT

2,333 total
  • Amazon.com Inc 0.29%
  • Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.27%
  • Boeing Co/The 0.26%
  • Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.26%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.26%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 0.26%
  • Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.26%
  • Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.25%
  • Oracle Corp 0.25%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 0.25%

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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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