ETF comparison
SHV vs VGLT
US Treasury (Short) vs US Treasury (Long).
iShares 0–1 Year Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHV and VGLT would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VGLT is 12 bps cheaper than SHV. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/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 VGLT.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in SHV
62 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 VGLT
99 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.18%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.15%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.13%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.09%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.09%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.09%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.00%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.99%
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- SHV vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SHV vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SHV vs SGOV · iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF 42.6%
- SHV vs GBIL · Goldman Sachs Access Treasury 0-1 Year ETF 32.0%
- SHV vs BIL · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF 18.7%
- SHV vs VBIL · Vanguard 0-3 Month Treasury Bill ETF 13.9%
More comparisons with VGLT
- VGLT vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGLT vs SHYG · iShares 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGLT vs SJNK · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Short Term High Yield Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGLT vs SPHY · State Street SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond Index ETF 0.0%
- VGLT vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond Index ETF 0.0%
- VGLT vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond Index 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.