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SPLB vs VCSH

Both US Corporate Bond.

State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond Index ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

SPLB unmatched 98.7% Shared 0.0% VCSH unmatched 98.7%

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 SPLB only
2,937 positions
Shared
2 positions
In VCSH only
3,061 positions

Side by side

SPLB

State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond Index ETF

State Street · US Corporate Bond

78 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.040%
Net assets
$1.19B
TTM yield
5.30%
Top-10 conc.
2.9%
VCSH

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Corporate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$52.92B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
4.16%
Top-10 conc.
1.9%

Sub-score comparison

96
Cost
97
50
Tax efficiency
52
60
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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SPLB sub-score VCSH

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

Cost difference

VCSH is 1 bps cheaper than SPLB. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for SPLB.

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 SPLB vs VCSH.

Top shared holdings

2 shared in total
# Holding In SPLB In VCSH Overlap
1 GEORGIA-PACIFIC LLC 0.01% 0.00% 0.00%
2 DOW CHEMICAL CO/THE 0.00% 0.02% 0.00%

Only in SPLB

2,937 total
  • ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV 0.35%
  • CVS HEALTH CORP 0.34%
  • AMAZON.COM INC 0.31%
  • META PLATFORMS INC 0.28%
  • CHARTER COMM OPT LLC/CAP 0.28%
  • META PLATFORMS INC 0.27%
  • BROADCOM INC 0.26%
  • META PLATFORMS INC 0.26%
  • PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER 0.26%
  • ORACLE CORP 0.25%

Only in VCSH

3,061 total
  • Bank of America Corp 0.23%
  • Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.22%
  • AbbVie Inc 0.20%
  • T-Mobile USA Inc 0.19%
  • CVS Health Corp 0.19%
  • Amazon.com Inc 0.19%
  • Boeing Co/The 0.19%
  • Wells Fargo & Co 0.18%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.17%
  • Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.17%

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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/.

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.