ETF comparison
GOVT vs JPST
US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US Aggregate Bond.
iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF
Holdings overlap
3 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and JPST would leave roughly 0.9% 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
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Cost difference
GOVT is 13 bps cheaper than JPST. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/yr more in fees for JPST.
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 GOVT vs JPST.
Top shared holdings
3 shared in total| # | Holding | In GOVT | In JPST | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.49% | 2.15% | 0.49% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.44% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.18% | 0.40% | 0.18% |
Only in GOVT
211 total- United States of America 5.28%
- United States of America 2.95%
- United States of America 2.63%
- United States of America 2.08%
- United States of America 1.62%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.38%
- United States of America 1.37%
Only in JPST
786 total- United States of America 0.65%
- National Bank of Canada 0.56%
- Capital One Financial Corp. 0.55%
- First Abu Dhabi Bank PJSC 0.55%
- Svenska Handelsbanken AB 0.51%
- DNB Bank ASA 0.51%
- Royal Bank of Canada 0.51%
- AbbVie, Inc. 0.48%
- FHLMC 0.47%
- Bank of Nova Scotia 0.46%
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- GOVT vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 0.5%
- GOVT vs MINT · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.3%
- GOVT vs PULS · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF 0.2%
More comparisons with JPST
- JPST vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.9%
- JPST vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 0.9%
- JPST vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.7%
- JPST vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.7%
- JPST vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 0.5%
- JPST vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 0.4%
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.