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SHY vs TLH

US Treasury (Short) vs US Treasury (Long).

iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF · iShares 10-20 Year Treasury Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHY and TLH would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SHY unmatched 99.0% Shared 0.0% TLH unmatched 98.1%

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 SHY only
90 positions
Shared
0 positions
In TLH only
59 positions

Side by side

SHY

iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF

iShares · US Treasury (Short)

83 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$27.44B
TTM yield
3.30%
Top-10 conc.
15.4%
TLH

iShares 10-20 Year Treasury Bond ETF

iShares · US Treasury (Long)

83 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$12.24B
TTM yield
4.31%
Top-10 conc.
34.2%

Sub-score comparison

85
Cost
85
59
Tax efficiency
57
100
Liquidity
100
N/A
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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SHY sub-score TLH

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 SHY vs TLH.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in SHY

90 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 TLH

59 total
  • United States of America 3.97%
  • United States of America 3.95%
  • United States of America 3.51%
  • United States of America 3.32%
  • United States of America 3.31%
  • United States of America 3.31%
  • United States of America 3.28%
  • United States of America 3.19%
  • United States of America 3.18%
  • United States of America 3.14%

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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.