ETF comparison
GOVT vs TLH
US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US Treasury (Long).
iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · iShares 10-20 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
42 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and TLH would leave roughly 7.4% 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 10 bps cheaper than TLH. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for TLH.
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 TLH.
Top shared holdings
42 shared in total| # | Holding | In GOVT | In TLH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 1.37% | 1.48% | 1.37% |
| 2 | United States of America | 1.46% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.55% | 0.62% | 0.55% |
| 4 | United States of America | 0.48% | 1.10% | 0.48% |
| 5 | United States of America | 0.36% | 3.07% | 0.36% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.35% | 0.71% | 0.35% |
| 7 | United States of America | 0.33% | 0.99% | 0.33% |
| 8 | United States of America | 0.32% | 3.42% | 0.32% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.29% | 2.43% | 0.29% |
| 10 | United States of America | 0.27% | 2.51% | 0.27% |
| 11 | United States of America | 0.24% | 1.61% | 0.24% |
| 12 | United States of America | 0.23% | 2.60% | 0.23% |
Only in GOVT
172 total- 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 1.38%
- United States of America 1.36%
- United States of America 1.20%
- United States of America 1.08%
Only in TLH
24 total- United States of America 5.54%
- United States of America 3.97%
- United States of America 3.95%
- United States of America 3.32%
- United States of America 3.31%
- United States of America 3.26%
- United States of America 2.63%
- United States of America 2.35%
- United States of America 2.30%
- United States of America 1.83%
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- GOVT vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 1.5%
- GOVT vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 0.9%
- GOVT vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.9%
More comparisons with TLH
- TLH vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 4.8%
- TLH vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 4.5%
- TLH vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 4.5%
- TLH vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.4%
- TLH vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- TLH vs EDV · Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 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.