ETF comparison
GOVT vs VUSB
US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US Aggregate Bond.
iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and VUSB would leave roughly 0.1% 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 5 bps cheaper than VUSB. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for VUSB.
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 VUSB.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In GOVT | In VUSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.09% | 0.67% | 0.09% |
Only in GOVT
213 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 VUSB
1,280 total- United States Treasury Bill 4.19%
- PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The 0.58%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.52%
- Regions Bank/Birmingham AL 0.51%
- US Bancorp 0.50%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 0.49%
- Truist Bank 0.44%
- Westlake Flooring Master Trust 0.44%
- DLLAD 2024-1 LLC 0.43%
- UBS Group AG 0.41%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open GOVT or VUSB 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.