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ETF comparison

SPSB vs VCLT

Both US Corporate Bond.

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

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

SPSB unmatched 95.6% Shared 0.0% VCLT unmatched 98.1%

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 SPSB only
1,598 positions
Shared
1 positions
In VCLT only
2,843 positions

Side by side

SPSB

State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond Index ETF

State Street · US Corporate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.040%
Net assets
$11.32B
TTM yield
4.00%
Top-10 conc.
4.1%
VCLT

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Corporate Bond

88 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$9.46B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
5.40%
Top-10 conc.
2.5%

Sub-score comparison

96
Cost
97
53
Tax efficiency
50
100
Liquidity
99
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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SPSB sub-score VCLT

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

Cost difference

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

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 SPSB vs VCLT.

Top shared holdings

1 shared in total
# Holding In SPSB In VCLT Overlap
1 PROGRESSIVE CORP 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%

Only in SPSB

1,598 total
  • SALESFORCE INC 0.56%
  • AERCAP IRELAND CAP/GLOBA 0.44%
  • BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.42%
  • CITIGROUP INC 0.42%
  • MORGAN STANLEY 0.38%
  • JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 0.38%
  • PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER 0.37%
  • SPRINT CAPITAL CORP 0.37%
  • WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.37%
  • BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.36%

Only in VCLT

2,843 total
  • Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.35%
  • CVS Health Corp 0.32%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 0.27%
  • Boeing Co/The 0.25%
  • Amazon.com Inc 0.24%
  • AT&T Inc 0.23%
  • AT&T Inc 0.23%
  • CVS Health Corp 0.22%
  • Oracle Corp 0.22%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.21%

Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.

Open SPSB or VCLT at a brokerage

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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.