Vanguard Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF vs Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Vanguard Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF trades at $81.54, while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF trades at $369.53. The key difference: Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, Vanguard Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| VCIT | VTI | |
|---|---|---|
Sector | Fixed Income | — |
52-Week High | $84.82 | $374.36 |
52-Week Low | $81.45 | $305.74 |
Trailing returns across standard periods
VCIT tracks the Bloomberg U.S. 5-10 Year Corporate Bond Index, providing exposure to investment-grade debt from industrial, utility, and financial companies. It acts as a middle-ground bond fund, offering higher yields than short-term bonds with less price volatility than long-term corporate debt.
Read more on VCIT →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which represents approximately 100% of the investable US stock market and includes large-, mid-, small-, and micro-cap stocks. It invests by sampling the index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full index in terms of key characteristics.
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