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Rebuilt every trading night.\n Cheapest corporate bond ETFs by expense ratio\n As of Nov 12, 2026, VCIT has the lowest fee of 44 corporate bond ETFs with at least $100m in net assets: 0.03%. 4 funds tie there. See 25 funds ranked by fee, lowest first. Updated Nov 12, 2026.\n Cheapest corporate bond ETFs by expense ratio, ranked by fee, lowest first, as of Nov 12, 2026. Fees are each fund\u2019s net expense ratio from its latest filing, dated Dec 18, 2025 to Nov 3, 2026. Net assets are dated Jun 30, 2026 to Nov 12, 2026, each fund\u2019s latest. 1-year returns run Nov 12, 2025 to Nov 12, 2026, 365 days each. Source: ETFIQ. # Ticker Fund Fee Tie Net assets 1-year return \n 1 VCIT Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.03% Tie $68.6bn \u22121.5% \n 2 SCHI Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 0.03% Tie $11.6bn \u22121.4% \n 3 SPBO State Street SPDR Portfolio Corporate Bond ETF 0.03% Tie $2.1bn \u22121.3% \n 4 VTC Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF 0.03% Tie $1.6bn \u22121.4% \n 5 IGIB iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.04% Tie $19.6bn \u22121.5% \n 6 USIG iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.04% Tie $17.9bn \u22121.2% \n 7 GIGB Goldman Sachs Access Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.08% $1.0bn \u22121.3% \n 8 IBDX iShares iBonds Dec 2032 Term Corporate ETF 0.10% Tie $1.8bn \u22121.1% \n 9 BSCW Invesco BulletShares 2032 Corporate Bond ETF 0.10% Tie $1.6bn \u22121.1% \n 10 IBDY iShares iBonds Dec 2033 Term Corporate ETF 0.10% Tie $1.2bn \u22121.3% \n 11 BSCX Invesco BulletShares 2033 Corporate Bond ETF 0.10% Tie $1.2bn \u22121.4% \n 12 IBDZ iShares iBonds Dec 2034 Term Corporate ETF 0.10% Tie $909m \u22121.7% \n 13 BSCY Invesco BulletShares 2034 Corporate Bond ETF 0.10% Tie $667m \u22121.5% \n 14 IBCA iShares iBonds Dec 2035 Term Corporate ETF 0.10% Tie $494m \u22122.0% \n 15 BSCZ Invesco BulletShares 2035 Corporate Bond ETF 0.10% Tie $411m \u22122.2% \n 16 IBCB iShares iBonds Dec 2036 Term Corporate ETF 0.10% Tie $232m Not measured \n 17 VCEB Vanguard ESG U.S. Corporate Bond ETF 0.12% $1.2bn \u22122.0% \n 18 BYLD iShares Yield Optimized Bond ETF 0.13% $420m \u22120.4% \n 19 LQD iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.14% $32.9bn \u22122.8% \n 20 QLTA iShares Aaa - A Rated Corporate Bond ETF 0.15% Tie $1.1bn \u22121.9% \n 21 GXIG Global X Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.15% Tie $167m \u22121.6% \n 22 IGEB iShares Investment Grade Systematic Bond ETF 0.18% Tie $1.4bn \u22121.2% \n 23 SUSC iShares ESG Aware USD Corporate Bond ETF 0.18% Tie $1.3bn \u22121.5% \n 24 IG Principal Investment Grade Corporate Active ETF 0.19% Tie $201m Not measured \n 25 BBBI BondBloxx BBB Rated 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 0.19% Tie $121m \u22121.4% \n \n Method\n 44 corporate bond ETFs with at least $100m in net assets are listed by ETFIQ with a fee; the 25 with the lowest fee are shown. Across all 44, the median is 0.18% and the range runs from 0.03% to 0.86%. Lowest first. Funds with the same printed number are marked Tie and ordered by net assets, largest first. The set is ETFIQ\u2019s own segment, computed from each fund\u2019s filings and holdings. The list sorts one published number, with no scoring or weighting. Closed funds are not listed. A ranking is not a recommendation.\n Questions people ask\n What is an expense ratio? An ETF\u2019s expense ratio is the yearly fee taken from its assets, net of any waiver, as its prospectus states it. A fee of 0.03% costs $3 a year on $10,000. Which corporate bond ETFs have the lowest fee? As of Nov 12, 2026, VCIT ranks first of 44 corporate bond ETFs with at least $100m in net assets on fee, at 0.03%. SCHI is next at 0.03%. 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