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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
28.0 %

1,589 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VCSH and VTC would leave roughly 28.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

VCSH only 70.7% Shared 28.0% VTC only 71.0%
In VCSH only
1,300 positions
Shared
1,589 positions
In VTC only
3,244 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
$51.79B
TTM yield
4.45%
Top-10 conc.
2.2%
VTC

Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Corporate Bond

81 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$1.76B
TTM yield
4.97%
Top-10 conc.
1.5%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
97
52
Tax efficiency
51
100
Liquidity
67
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

1,589 shared in total
# Holding In VCSH In VTC Overlap
1 Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.14% 0.14% 0.14%
2 Wells Fargo & Co 0.14% 0.14% 0.14%
3 AbbVie Inc 0.21% 0.09% 0.09%
4 JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.11% 0.09% 0.09%
5 Morgan Stanley 0.12% 0.09% 0.09%
6 Broadcom Inc 0.10% 0.09% 0.09%
7 Deutsche Telekom International Finance BV 0.09% 0.09% 0.09%
8 Amgen Inc 0.17% 0.09% 0.09%
9 T-Mobile USA Inc 0.19% 0.09% 0.09%
10 JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.13% 0.09% 0.09%
11 T-Mobile USA Inc 0.09% 0.09% 0.09%
12 JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.15% 0.09% 0.09%

Only in VCSH

1,300 total
  • CVS Health Corp 0.21%
  • Boeing Co/The 0.19%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.16%
  • Citigroup Inc 0.16%
  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.14%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.14%
  • HSBC Holdings PLC 0.13%
  • Morgan Stanley 0.13%
  • Morgan Stanley 0.13%
  • Wells Fargo & Co 0.13%

Only in VTC

3,244 total
  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.13%
  • Wells Fargo & Co 0.12%
  • Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.11%
  • Morgan Stanley 0.10%
  • Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
  • Burlington Resources LLC 0.10%
  • Meta Platforms Inc 0.10%
  • Microsoft Corp 0.10%
  • Amgen Inc 0.09%
  • Bank of America Corp 0.09%

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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.