ETF comparison
VCIT vs VTC
Both US Corporate Bond.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
1,608 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VCIT and VTC would leave roughly 26.2% 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%).
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 VCIT vs VTC.
Top shared holdings
1,608 shared in total| # | Holding | In VCIT | In VTC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.17% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 2 | Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc | 0.25% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 3 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.23% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 4 | Meta Platforms Inc | 0.26% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 5 | Oracle Corp | 0.25% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 6 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.16% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 7 | Morgan Stanley | 0.18% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 8 | Bank of America Corp | 0.19% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 9 | Space Exploration Technologies Corp | 0.26% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.18% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 11 | Meta Platforms Inc | 0.25% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 12 | Bank of America Corp | 0.09% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
Only in VCIT
725 total- Citigroup Inc 0.19%
- Bank of America Corp 0.16%
- Citigroup Inc 0.16%
- Morgan Stanley 0.15%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.13%
- US Bancorp 0.12%
- Duke Energy Carolinas LLC 0.10%
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co 0.09%
- L3Harris Technologies Inc 0.09%
- Capital One Financial Corp 0.09%
Only in VTC
3,725 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.18%
- Bank of America Corp 0.15%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
- Bank of America Corp 0.10%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.10%
- T-Mobile USA Inc 0.09%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.09%
- CVS Health Corp 0.09%
- AbbVie Inc 0.09%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.08%
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More comparisons with VCIT
- VCIT vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 21.0%
- VCIT vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 11.1%
- VCIT vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 6.7%
- VCIT vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 6.6%
- VCIT vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 6.2%
- VCIT vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond Index ETF 0.7%
More comparisons with VTC
- VTC vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond Index ETF 25.5%
- VTC vs VCLT · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 21.6%
- VTC vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 17.2%
- VTC vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 16.7%
- VTC vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.6%
- VTC vs SPSB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond Index ETF 15.3%
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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