ETF comparison
IEI vs SPTI
Both US Treasury (Intermediate).
iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Treasury ETF
Holdings overlap
78 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEI and SPTI would leave roughly 64.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Treasury ETF
State Street · US Treasury (Intermediate)
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SPTI is 12 bps cheaper than IEI. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for IEI.
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 IEI vs SPTI.
Top shared holdings
78 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEI | In SPTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 2.28% | 1.74% | 1.74% |
| 2 | United States of America | 2.09% | 1.65% | 1.65% |
| 3 | United States of America | 1.59% | 1.62% | 1.59% |
| 4 | United States of America | 2.26% | 1.48% | 1.48% |
| 5 | United States of America | 1.75% | 1.48% | 1.48% |
| 6 | United States of America | 2.05% | 1.45% | 1.45% |
| 7 | United States of America | 2.09% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 8 | United States of America | 1.81% | 1.43% | 1.43% |
| 9 | United States of America | 1.39% | 1.30% | 1.30% |
| 10 | United States of America | 1.15% | 1.20% | 1.15% |
| 11 | United States of America | 1.48% | 1.11% | 1.11% |
| 12 | United States of America | 1.12% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
Only in IEI
8 total- United States of America 3.05%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.34%
- United States of America 0.76%
- United States of America 0.47%
- BlackRock Funds III 0.15%
- United States of America 0.01%
- United States of America 0.00%
Only in SPTI
26 total- United States Treasury 1.98%
- United States Treasury 1.94%
- United States Treasury 1.93%
- United States Treasury 1.91%
- United States Treasury 1.88%
- United States Treasury 1.86%
- United States Treasury 1.84%
- United States Treasury 1.80%
- United States Treasury 1.78%
- United States Treasury 1.62%
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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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