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VCLT vs VTIP

US Corporate Bond vs TIPS.

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

VCLT unmatched 98.1% Shared 0.0% VTIP unmatched 99.0%

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 VCLT only
2,844 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VTIP only
25 positions

Side by side

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%
VTIP

Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · TIPS

86 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$74.65B
whole fund, 4 share classes
TTM yield
4.83%
Top-10 conc.
49.8%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
97
50
Tax efficiency
48
99
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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VCLT sub-score VTIP

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

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 VCLT vs VTIP.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in VCLT

2,844 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%

Only in VTIP

25 total
  • United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.39%
  • United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.33%
  • United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.30%
  • United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.14%
  • United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.97%
  • United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
  • United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
  • United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.74%
  • United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.70%
  • United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.59%

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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/.

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.