ETF comparison
GOVT vs IEI
Both US Treasury (Intermediate).
iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
68 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and IEI would leave roughly 31.3% 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 10 bps cheaper than IEI. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for IEI.
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 GOVT vs IEI.
Top shared holdings
68 shared in total| # | Holding | In GOVT | In IEI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 5.28% | 2.26% | 2.26% |
| 2 | United States of America | 1.08% | 1.80% | 1.08% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.94% | 2.28% | 0.94% |
| 4 | United States of America | 0.84% | 2.11% | 0.84% |
| 5 | United States of America | 0.82% | 2.05% | 0.82% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.78% | 1.10% | 0.78% |
| 7 | United States of America | 0.77% | 1.49% | 0.77% |
| 8 | United States of America | 0.73% | 2.09% | 0.73% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.70% | 1.05% | 0.70% |
| 10 | United States of America | 0.66% | 0.98% | 0.66% |
| 11 | United States of America | 0.64% | 1.93% | 0.64% |
| 12 | United States of America | 0.61% | 0.98% | 0.61% |
Only in GOVT
146 total- United States of America 2.95%
- United States of America 2.63%
- United States of America 2.08%
- United States of America 1.62%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.38%
- United States of America 1.37%
- United States of America 1.36%
Only in IEI
15 total- United States of America 1.26%
- United States of America 1.13%
- United States of America 1.13%
- United States of America 1.03%
- United States of America 0.97%
- United States of America 0.94%
- United States of America 0.93%
- United States of America 0.93%
- United States of America 0.91%
- United States of America 0.89%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with GOVT
- GOVT vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 31.2%
- GOVT vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 30.8%
- GOVT vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 30.2%
- 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%
More comparisons with IEI
- IEI vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.7%
- IEI vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 15.4%
- IEI vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 14.6%
- IEI vs IEF · iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF 1.0%
- IEI vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- IEI vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS 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.