ETF comparison
VCIT vs VCLT
Both US Corporate Bond.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
13 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VCIT and VCLT 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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Top shared holdings
13 shared in total| # | Holding | In VCIT | In VCLT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Southwestern Public Service Co | 0.02% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 2 | General Motors Co | 0.06% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 3 | Marriott International Inc/MD | 0.02% | 0.09% | 0.02% |
| 4 | AT&T Inc | 0.04% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 5 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.01% | 0.11% | 0.01% |
| 6 | American Airlines 2026-2 Class A Pass Through Trust | 0.01% | 0.05% | 0.01% |
| 7 | Principal Financial Group Inc | 0.01% | 0.02% | 0.01% |
| 8 | American Airlines 2026-1 Class A Pass Through Trust | 0.01% | 0.04% | 0.01% |
| 9 | WP Carey Inc | 0.01% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 10 | American Airlines 2025-1 Class A Pass Through Trust | 0.01% | 0.02% | 0.01% |
| 11 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.14% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 12 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.00% | 0.03% | 0.00% |
Only in VCIT
2,320 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%
Only in VCLT
2,831 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%
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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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