ETF comparison
GOVT vs VGSH
US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US Treasury (Short).
iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
52 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and VGSH would leave roughly 27.9% 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
VGSH is 2 bps cheaper than GOVT. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for GOVT.
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 VGSH.
Top shared holdings
52 shared in total| # | Holding | In GOVT | In VGSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 1.62% | 1.30% | 1.30% |
| 2 | United States of America | 2.08% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 3 | United States of America | 1.20% | 1.06% | 1.06% |
| 4 | United States of America | 2.63% | 1.06% | 1.06% |
| 5 | United States of America | 2.95% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.99% | 1.02% | 0.99% |
| 7 | United States of America | 0.98% | 1.22% | 0.98% |
| 8 | United States of America | 0.98% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.96% | 1.20% | 0.96% |
| 10 | United States of America | 0.93% | 1.28% | 0.93% |
| 11 | United States of America | 1.08% | 0.91% | 0.91% |
| 12 | United States of America | 0.90% | 1.15% | 0.90% |
Only in GOVT
162 total- United States of America 5.28%
- 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%
- United States of America 1.01%
- United States of America 0.99%
- United States of America 0.94%
- United States of America 0.92%
Only in VGSH
39 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.42%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.36%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.32%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.31%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.28%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.24%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.24%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.23%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.21%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with GOVT
- GOVT vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 27.6%
- GOVT vs SPTS · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Treasury Index ETF 26.8%
- GOVT vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 26.7%
- GOVT vs SCHO · Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 26.1%
- GOVT vs BIV · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 19.0%
- GOVT vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 17.7%
More comparisons with VGSH
- VGSH vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 16.6%
- VGSH vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 16.0%
- VGSH vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.8%
- VGSH vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.8%
- VGSH vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.5%
- VGSH vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond Index ETF 15.5%
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/.
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