ETF comparison
SPSB vs VCSH
Both US Corporate Bond.
State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond Index ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,358 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPSB and VCSH would leave roughly 38.6% 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
State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond Index ETF
State Street · US Corporate Bond
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VCSH 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 VCSH.
Top shared holdings
1,358 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPSB | In VCSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.42% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 2 | CVS HEALTH CORP | 0.27% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 3 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.25% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 4 | PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER | 0.37% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 5 | AMGEN INC | 0.25% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 6 | CIGNA GROUP/THE | 0.21% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 7 | AERCAP IRELAND CAP/GLOBA | 0.44% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 8 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.30% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 9 | CITIGROUP INC | 0.24% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 10 | NVIDIA CORP | 0.17% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 11 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.21% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 12 | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.21% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
Only in SPSB
241 total- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 0.38%
- WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.37%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.36%
- MORGAN STANLEY PVT BANK 0.31%
- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 0.23%
- JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 0.21%
- US BANCORP 0.19%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.18%
- APPLE INC 0.17%
- VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS 0.17%
Only in VCSH
1,705 total- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.22%
- AbbVie Inc 0.20%
- T-Mobile USA Inc 0.19%
- Amazon.com Inc 0.19%
- Boeing Co/The 0.19%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.17%
- Morgan Stanley 0.17%
- Bank of America Corp 0.16%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.16%
- Citigroup Inc 0.16%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with SPSB
- SPSB vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 31.7%
- SPSB vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond Index ETF 27.1%
- SPSB vs VTC · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares 15.3%
- SPSB vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 14.0%
- SPSB vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 7.8%
- SPSB vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 4.6%
More comparisons with VCSH
- VCSH vs VTC · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares 29.9%
- VCSH vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 27.5%
- VCSH vs LQD · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 20.1%
- VCSH vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 10.7%
- VCSH vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 9.2%
- VCSH vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 9.1%
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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