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ETF comparison

VCSH vs VTC

Both US Corporate Bond.

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
29.9 %

1,824 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VCSH and VTC would leave roughly 29.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

VCSH unmatched 68.8% Shared 29.9% VTC unmatched 68.7%

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 VCSH only
1,239 positions
Shared
1,824 positions
In VTC only
3,509 positions

Side by side

VCSH

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Corporate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$52.92B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
4.16%
Top-10 conc.
1.9%
VTC

Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Corporate Bond

80 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$1.62B
TTM yield
4.72%
Top-10 conc.
1.1%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
97
52
Tax efficiency
51
100
Liquidity
66
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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VCSH sub-score VTC

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 VCSH vs VTC.

Top shared holdings

1,824 shared in total
# Holding In VCSH In VTC Overlap
1 Bank of America Corp 0.11% 0.15% 0.11%
2 Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.12% 0.10% 0.10%
3 Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.14% 0.10% 0.10%
4 T-Mobile USA Inc 0.19% 0.09% 0.09%
5 Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.22% 0.09% 0.09%
6 AbbVie Inc 0.20% 0.09% 0.09%
7 Deutsche Telekom International Finance BV 0.12% 0.08% 0.08%
8 Amgen Inc 0.16% 0.08% 0.08%
9 Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.17% 0.08% 0.08%
10 JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.13% 0.08% 0.08%
11 Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.13% 0.07% 0.07%
12 Morgan Stanley 0.14% 0.07% 0.07%

Only in VCSH

1,239 total
  • Bank of America Corp 0.16%
  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.14%
  • Morgan Stanley 0.14%
  • Amazon.com Inc 0.14%
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc 0.12%
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.11%
  • Morgan Stanley 0.11%
  • Citibank NA 0.11%
  • AT&T Inc 0.11%
  • Wells Fargo & Co 0.11%

Only in VTC

3,509 total
  • Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
  • Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.10%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 0.10%
  • Oracle Corp 0.09%
  • CVS Health Corp 0.09%
  • Abbott Laboratories 0.09%
  • Microsoft Corp 0.08%
  • Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.08%
  • Morgan Stanley 0.08%

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.