ETF comparison
SHY vs SPTI
US Treasury (Short) vs US Treasury (Intermediate).
iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Treasury Index ETF
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHY and SPTI would leave roughly 1.5% 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
State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Treasury Index ETF
State Street · US Treasury (Intermediate)
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SPTI is 12 bps cheaper than SHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for SHY.
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 SHY vs SPTI.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In SHY | In SPTI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 1.30% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.61% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
Only in SHY
88 total- United States of America 1.97%
- United States of America 1.71%
- United States of America 1.61%
- United States of America 1.51%
- United States of America 1.49%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.47%
- United States of America 1.40%
- United States of America 1.39%
- United States of America 1.39%
Only in SPTI
101 total- United States Treasury 1.97%
- 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 1.83%
- United States Treasury 1.80%
- United States Treasury 1.78%
- United States Treasury 1.74%
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- SHY vs ICSH · iShares Ultra Short Duration Bond Active ETF 0.6%
- SHY vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 0.5%
- SHY vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 0.4%
More comparisons with SPTI
- SPTI vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 1.5%
- SPTI vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SPTI vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 0.0%
- SPTI vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
- SPTI vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- SPTI vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 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.