ETF comparison
SHV vs VBIL
Both US Treasury (Short).
iShares 0–1 Year Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard 0-3 Month Treasury Bill ETF
Holdings overlap
9 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHV and VBIL would leave roughly 13.9% 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
VBIL is 9 bps cheaper than SHV. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/yr more in fees for SHV.
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 SHV vs VBIL.
Top shared holdings
9 shared in total| # | Holding | In SHV | In VBIL | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 3.04% | 3.64% | 3.04% |
| 2 | United States of America | 1.92% | 4.71% | 1.92% |
| 3 | United States of America | 1.72% | 3.63% | 1.72% |
| 4 | United States of America | 2.91% | 1.46% | 1.46% |
| 5 | United States of America | 3.14% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 6 | United States of America | 1.81% | 1.42% | 1.42% |
| 7 | United States of America | 2.79% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 8 | United States of America | 2.28% | 1.27% | 1.27% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.24% | 3.66% | 0.24% |
Only in SHV
53 total- United States of America 4.95%
- United States of America 4.53%
- United States of America 3.86%
- United States of America 3.60%
- United States of America 3.56%
- United States of America 3.55%
- United States of America 3.37%
- United States of America 3.33%
- United States of America 3.29%
- United States of America 3.23%
Only in VBIL
17 total- United States Treasury Bill 6.78%
- United States Treasury Bill 6.10%
- United States Treasury Bill 5.61%
- United States Treasury Bill 5.41%
- United States Treasury Bill 5.18%
- United States Treasury Bill 5.17%
- United States Treasury Bill 5.15%
- United States Treasury Bill 5.12%
- United States Treasury Bill 5.02%
- United States Treasury Bill 4.72%
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- SHV vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHV vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with VBIL
- VBIL vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VBIL vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VBIL vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VBIL vs GBIL · Goldman Sachs Access Treasury 0-1 Year ETF 0.0%
- VBIL vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VBIL vs SCHO · Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 0.0%
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.