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CWB vs SHY

US Corporate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).

State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

CWB unmatched 99.5% Shared 0.0% SHY unmatched 99.0%

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 CWB only
343 positions
Shared
0 positions
In SHY only
89 positions

Side by side

CWB

State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF

State Street · US Corporate Bond

71 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.40%
Net assets
$5.55B
TTM yield
1.67%
Top-10 conc.
17.1%
SHY

iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF

iShares · US Treasury (Short)

83 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$26.28B
TTM yield
3.62%
Top-10 conc.
16.0%

Sub-score comparison

60
Cost
85
57
Tax efficiency
58
89
Liquidity
100
90
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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CWB sub-score SHY

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

SHY is 25 bps cheaper than CWB. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for CWB.

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 CWB vs SHY.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in CWB

343 total
  • WESTERN DIGITAL CORP 5.54%
  • BOEING CO/THE 1.87%
  • LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC 1.44%
  • ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING 1.42%
  • LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC 1.38%
  • BLOOM ENERGY CORP 1.12%
  • WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 1.10%
  • ORACLE CORP 1.10%
  • NEBIUS GROUP NV 1.08%
  • COREWEAVE INC 1.08%

Only in SHY

89 total
  • United States of America 1.96%
  • United States of America 1.84%
  • United States of America 1.71%
  • United States of America 1.60%
  • United States of America 1.60%
  • United States of America 1.52%
  • United States of America 1.48%
  • United States of America 1.45%
  • United States of America 1.43%
  • United States of America 1.40%

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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/.

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