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IEF vs IEI

Both US Treasury (Intermediate).

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF · iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
2.0 %

2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEF and IEI would leave roughly 2.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

IEF unmatched 96.1% Shared 2.0% IEI unmatched 96.4%

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.

In IEF only
13 positions
Shared
2 positions
In IEI only
81 positions

Side by side

IEF

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF

iShares · US Treasury (Intermediate)

83 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$43.53B
TTM yield
3.75%
Top-10 conc.
83.9%
IEI

iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF

iShares · US Treasury (Intermediate)

83 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$17.08B
TTM yield
3.48%
Top-10 conc.
22.5%

Sub-score comparison

85
Cost
85
58
Tax efficiency
59
100
Liquidity
100
N/A
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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IEF sub-score IEI

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.15% vs 0.15%).

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 IEF vs IEI.

Top shared holdings

2 shared in total
# Holding In IEF In IEI Overlap
1 United States of America 1.06% 2.17% 1.06%
2 United States of America 2.47% 0.98% 0.98%

Only in IEF

13 total
  • United States of America 9.31%
  • United States of America 8.74%
  • United States of America 8.63%
  • United States of America 8.52%
  • United States of America 8.31%
  • United States of America 8.25%
  • United States of America 8.21%
  • United States of America 8.12%
  • United States of America 7.93%
  • United States of America 7.87%

Only in IEI

81 total
  • United States of America 2.90%
  • United States of America 2.30%
  • United States of America 2.29%
  • United States of America 2.26%
  • United States of America 2.24%
  • United States of America 2.11%
  • United States of America 2.10%
  • United States of America 2.10%
  • United States of America 2.09%
  • United States of America 2.08%

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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.