ETF comparison
GOVT vs IUSB
US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US Aggregate Bond.
iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
204 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and IUSB would leave roughly 26.7% 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 1 bps cheaper than IUSB. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for IUSB.
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 IUSB.
Top shared holdings
204 shared in total| # | Holding | In GOVT | In IUSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.78% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.38% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.99% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 4 | United States of America | 0.44% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 5 | United States of America | 0.80% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.83% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 7 | United States of America | 0.77% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 8 | United States of America | 0.62% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.73% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 10 | United States of America | 0.92% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 11 | United States of America | 0.49% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 12 | United States of America | 0.61% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
Only in GOVT
10 total- United States of America 1.38%
- United States of America 0.41%
- United States of America 0.19%
- United States of America 0.12%
- United States of America 0.09%
- United States of America 0.06%
- United States of America 0.06%
- United States of America 0.05%
- United States of America 0.04%
- United States of America 0.03%
Only in IUSB
17,840 total- Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. 0.41%
- Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. 0.31%
- Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. 0.30%
- United States of America 0.30%
- United States of America 0.29%
- United States of America 0.29%
- United States of America 0.27%
- Federal National Mortgage Association 0.26%
- Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. 0.26%
- United States of America 0.24%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with GOVT
- 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%
- GOVT vs BIV · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 19.0%
- GOVT vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 17.5%
- GOVT vs SPTL · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Treasury ETF 16.7%
More comparisons with IUSB
- IUSB vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 20.1%
- IUSB vs BIV · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 15.4%
- IUSB vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 15.2%
- IUSB vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 14.6%
- IUSB vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 14.4%
- IUSB vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 14.3%
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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