ETF comparison
GOVT vs VGIT
Both US Treasury (Intermediate).
iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
84 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and VGIT would leave roughly 40.6% 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
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · US Treasury (Intermediate)
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VGIT 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 VGIT.
Top shared holdings
84 shared in total| # | Holding | In GOVT | In VGIT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 5.28% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 2 | United States of America | 1.01% | 1.12% | 1.01% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.99% | 1.87% | 0.99% |
| 4 | United States of America | 0.94% | 1.65% | 0.94% |
| 5 | United States of America | 0.92% | 1.87% | 0.92% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.84% | 1.52% | 0.84% |
| 7 | United States of America | 0.83% | 1.92% | 0.83% |
| 8 | United States of America | 0.82% | 1.84% | 0.82% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.82% | 1.47% | 0.82% |
| 10 | United States of America | 0.80% | 1.89% | 0.80% |
| 11 | United States of America | 0.78% | 1.09% | 0.78% |
| 12 | United States of America | 0.77% | 1.05% | 0.77% |
Only in GOVT
130 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 1.46%
- United States of America 1.38%
- United States of America 1.37%
- United States of America 1.36%
Only in VGIT
19 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.08%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.74%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.74%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.72%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.71%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.70%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.69%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.68%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.68%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with GOVT
- GOVT vs SPTI · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Treasury ETF 40.0%
- GOVT vs SCHR · Schwab Intermediate-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 39.6%
- GOVT vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 37.6%
- GOVT vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 32.9%
- GOVT vs IEI · iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF 31.3%
- GOVT vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 31.2%
More comparisons with VGIT
- VGIT vs IEF · iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF 23.2%
- VGIT vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 20.8%
- VGIT vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 20.8%
- VGIT vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 19.8%
- VGIT vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGIT vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS 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/.
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