ETF comparison
GOVT vs SPTS
US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US Treasury (Short).
iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Treasury ETF
Holdings overlap
56 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and SPTS would leave roughly 26.8% 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
SPTS is 2 bps cheaper than GOVT. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/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 SPTS.
Top shared holdings
56 shared in total| # | Holding | In GOVT | In SPTS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 1.62% | 1.25% | 1.25% |
| 2 | United States of America | 2.63% | 1.22% | 1.22% |
| 3 | United States of America | 2.95% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 4 | United States of America | 2.08% | 1.02% | 1.02% |
| 5 | United States of America | 0.99% | 1.08% | 0.99% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.96% | 1.08% | 0.96% |
| 7 | United States of America | 1.36% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
| 8 | United States of America | 1.08% | 0.92% | 0.92% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.93% | 0.92% | 0.92% |
| 10 | United States of America | 0.90% | 1.02% | 0.90% |
| 11 | United States of America | 0.98% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 12 | United States of America | 1.20% | 0.85% | 0.85% |
Only in GOVT
158 total- United States of America 5.28%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.37%
- United States of America 1.01%
- United States of America 0.99%
- United States of America 0.94%
- United States of America 0.92%
- United States of America 0.84%
Only in SPTS
40 total- United States Treasury 1.42%
- United States Treasury 1.29%
- United States Treasury 1.29%
- United States Treasury 1.24%
- United States Treasury 1.23%
- United States Treasury 1.21%
- United States Treasury 1.21%
- United States Treasury 1.21%
- United States Treasury 1.21%
- United States Treasury 1.20%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with GOVT
- GOVT vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 26.7%
- 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%
More comparisons with SPTS
- SPTS vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 17.1%
- SPTS vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 16.0%
- SPTS vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.0%
- SPTS vs BIL · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF 0.0%
- SPTS vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SPTS vs GBIL · Goldman Sachs Access Treasury 0-1 Year 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.