ETF comparison
GOVT vs SHM
US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US Municipal Bond.
iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE Short Term Municipal Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and SHM would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
GOVT is 15 bps cheaper than SHM. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/yr more in fees for SHM.
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 SHM.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo 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 SHM
1,043 total- Southeast Energy Authority A Cooperative District 0.92%
- State of California 0.69%
- New York State Dormitory Authority 0.61%
- State of California 0.52%
- State of California 0.49%
- State of California 0.46%
- City of New York NY 0.44%
- University of California 0.41%
- Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority 0.40%
- City of New York NY 0.39%
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More comparisons with SHM
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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