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GOVT vs IGSB

US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US Corporate Bond.

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

GOVT unmatched 98.8% Shared 0.0% IGSB unmatched 99.2%

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 GOVT only
214 positions
Shared
0 positions
In IGSB only
4,605 positions

Side by side

GOVT

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF

iShares · US Treasury (Intermediate)

88 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.050%
Net assets
$41.37B
TTM yield
3.75%
Top-10 conc.
21.7%
IGSB

iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

iShares · US Corporate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.040%
Net assets
$23.38B
TTM yield
4.67%
Top-10 conc.
1.5%

Sub-score comparison

95
Cost
96
58
Tax efficiency
51
100
Liquidity
100
N/A
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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GOVT sub-score IGSB

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

Cost difference

IGSB is 1 bps cheaper than GOVT. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for GOVT.

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 IGSB.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in GOVT

214 total
  • United States of America 5.28%
  • 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%

Only in IGSB

4,605 total
  • EAGLE FUNDING LUXCO SARL 0.31%
  • T-MOBILE USA INC 0.18%
  • BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.16%
  • ABBVIE INC 0.14%
  • AMAZON.COM INC 0.13%
  • CVS HEALTH CORP 0.13%
  • MARS INC 0.12%
  • BOEING CO 0.12%
  • GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.12%
  • WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.11%

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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.