ETF comparison
VCIT vs VCSH
Both US Corporate Bond.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
60 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VCIT and VCSH would leave roughly 0.7% 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
60 shared in total| # | Holding | In VCIT | In VCSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.17% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 2 | Salesforce Inc | 0.14% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 3 | General Motors Financial Co Inc | 0.04% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 4 | Walmart Inc | 0.06% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 5 | Toronto-Dominion Bank/The | 0.08% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 6 | Constellation Brands Inc | 0.03% | 0.04% | 0.03% |
| 7 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.07% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 8 | Home Depot Inc/The | 0.03% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Electronic Arts Inc | 0.03% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Ford Motor Credit Co LLC | 0.02% | 0.04% | 0.02% |
| 11 | General Motors Financial Co Inc | 0.02% | 0.04% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Toyota Motor Credit Corp | 0.06% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in VCIT
2,273 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 VCSH
3,003 total- 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%
- Morgan Stanley 0.17%
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More comparisons with VCSH
- VCSH vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.4%
- VCSH vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.1%
- VCSH vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.1%
- VCSH vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond Index ETF 0.0%
- VCSH vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VCSH vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities 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/.
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