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GOVT vs SPHY

US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US High Yield Bond.

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

GOVT unmatched 98.8% Shared 0.0% SPHY unmatched 98.3%

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 SPHY only
1,929 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%
SPHY

State Street SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF

State Street · US High Yield Bond

87 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.050%
Net assets
$11.73B
TTM yield
7.42%
Top-10 conc.
3.1%

Sub-score comparison

95
Cost
95
58
Tax efficiency
43
100
Liquidity
100
N/A
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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GOVT sub-score SPHY

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

Cost difference

Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.050% vs 0.050%).

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 SPHY.

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 SPHY

1,929 total
  • 1261229 BC LTD 0.42%
  • ECHOSTAR CORP 0.40%
  • MERIDIAN ARC HOLDCO LLC 0.40%
  • PR RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.30%
  • CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC 0.28%
  • QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC 0.28%
  • CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC 0.27%
  • SV RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.27%
  • AMERICAN AIRLINES/AADVAN 0.25%
  • ASURION LLC/ASURION CO 0.25%

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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.

Open GOVT or SPHY at a brokerage

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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.