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GOVT vs VWOB

US Treasury (Intermediate) vs International Bond.

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.1 %

3 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and VWOB would leave roughly 0.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

GOVT unmatched 98.7% Shared 0.1% VWOB unmatched 97.6%

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
211 positions
Shared
3 positions
In VWOB only
927 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%
VWOB

Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Bond

82 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$6.58B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
6.10%
Top-10 conc.
5.9%

Sub-score comparison

95
Cost
85
58
Tax efficiency
48
100
Liquidity
92
N/A
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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GOVT sub-score VWOB

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

Cost difference

GOVT is 10 bps cheaper than VWOB. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for VWOB.

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 VWOB.

Top shared holdings

3 shared in total
# Holding In GOVT In VWOB Overlap
1 United States of America 0.38% 0.03% 0.03%
2 United States of America 0.39% 0.02% 0.02%
3 United States of America 0.73% 0.01% 0.01%

Only in GOVT

211 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 VWOB

927 total
  • Argentine Republic Government International Bond 1.20%
  • Argentine Republic Government International Bond 0.71%
  • Argentine Republic Government International Bond 0.67%
  • Argentine Republic Government International Bond 0.58%
  • Petroleos Mexicanos 0.55%
  • Petroleos Mexicanos 0.51%
  • Eagle Funding Luxco Sarl 0.47%
  • Eagle Funding Luxco Sarl 0.41%
  • Qatar Government International Bond 0.38%
  • Qatar Government International Bond 0.38%

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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.