ETF comparison
VGSH vs VTC
US Treasury (Short) vs US Corporate Bond.
Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VGSH and VTC would leave roughly 0.2% 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
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 VGSH vs VTC.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In VGSH | In VTC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.15% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.16% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in VGSH
89 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.44%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.42%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.38%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.36%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.35%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.33%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.32%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.31%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.30%
Only in VTC
5,331 total- Bank of America Corp 0.15%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.10%
- Bank of America Corp 0.10%
- Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc 0.10%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.10%
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The 0.10%
- Meta Platforms Inc 0.10%
- T-Mobile USA Inc 0.09%
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp 0.09%
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- VGSH vs ANGL · VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs BAB · Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs BIL · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with VTC
- VTC vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTC vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VTC vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 0.0%
- VTC vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTC vs ICVT · iShares Convertible Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTC vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS 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/.
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.