ETF comparison
SHY vs VTC
US Treasury (Short) vs US Corporate Bond.
iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHY and VTC would leave roughly 0.2% 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 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 VTC.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In SHY | In VTC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.76% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.79% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in SHY
88 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 VTC
5,331 total- Bank of America Corp 0.15%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.10%
- Bank of America Corp 0.10%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.10%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.10%
- Meta Platforms Inc 0.10%
- T-Mobile USA Inc 0.09%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.09%
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- SHY vs BAB · Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs BIL · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with VTC
- VTC vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.2%
- VTC vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTC vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTC vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 0.0%
- VTC vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTC vs ICVT · iShares Convertible Bond ETF 0.0%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.