ETF comparison
EAGG vs GOVT
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Intermediate).
iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
199 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EAGG and GOVT would leave roughly 30.2% 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
GOVT is 5 bps cheaper than EAGG. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for EAGG.
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 EAGG vs GOVT.
Top shared holdings
199 shared in total| # | Holding | In EAGG | In GOVT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.47% | 0.99% | 0.47% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.41% | 0.44% | 0.41% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.40% | 0.80% | 0.40% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 0.40% | 0.83% | 0.40% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.39% | 0.77% | 0.39% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.38% | 0.62% | 0.38% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.38% | 0.55% | 0.38% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.37% | 0.57% | 0.37% |
| 9 | United States Treasury | 0.37% | 0.92% | 0.37% |
| 10 | United States Treasury | 0.37% | 0.61% | 0.37% |
| 11 | United States Treasury | 0.37% | 0.52% | 0.37% |
| 12 | United States Treasury | 0.36% | 0.37% | 0.36% |
Only in EAGG
5,011 total- UMBS, TBA 0.51%
- Freddie Mac 0.42%
- UMBS, TBA 0.35%
- UMBS, TBA 0.32%
- UMBS, TBA 0.32%
- CHENIERE ENERGY INC 0.27%
- United States Treasury 0.26%
- United States Treasury 0.25%
- Fannie Mae 0.25%
- United States Treasury 0.25%
Only in GOVT
15 total- United States of America 1.38%
- United States of America 1.20%
- United States of America 0.46%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.30%
- United States of America 0.27%
- United States of America 0.25%
- United States of America 0.24%
- United States of America 0.22%
- United States of America 0.19%
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- EAGG vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 16.0%
- EAGG vs BIV · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 15.4%
- EAGG vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 15.1%
- EAGG vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 14.8%
More comparisons with GOVT
- GOVT vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF 29.7%
- GOVT vs SPTS · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Treasury ETF 26.8%
- GOVT vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 26.7%
- GOVT vs SCHO · Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 26.1%
- GOVT vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 23.4%
- GOVT vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 22.9%
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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