ETF comparison
GVI vs SHY
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
87 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GVI and SHY would leave roughly 27.3% 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
SHY is 5 bps cheaper than GVI. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for GVI.
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 GVI vs SHY.
Top shared holdings
87 shared in total| # | Holding | In GVI | In SHY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.67% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.61% | 1.71% | 0.61% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.60% | 1.32% | 0.60% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 0.53% | 1.38% | 0.53% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.51% | 0.73% | 0.51% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.50% | 0.82% | 0.50% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.50% | 1.12% | 0.50% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.50% | 1.16% | 0.50% |
| 9 | United States Treasury | 0.48% | 1.52% | 0.48% |
| 10 | United States Treasury | 0.47% | 1.21% | 0.47% |
| 11 | United States Treasury | 0.46% | 1.29% | 0.46% |
| 12 | United States Treasury | 0.45% | 0.84% | 0.45% |
Only in GVI
6,090 total- United States Treasury 0.79%
- United States Treasury 0.77%
- United States Treasury 0.76%
- United States Treasury 0.76%
- United States Treasury 0.76%
- United States Treasury 0.74%
- United States Treasury 0.73%
- United States Treasury 0.70%
- United States Treasury 0.69%
- United States Treasury 0.63%
Only in SHY
2 total- United States of America 1.84%
- United States of America 1.39%
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- GVI vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 18.9%
- GVI vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 14.9%
- GVI vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 10.4%
- GVI vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 5.4%
- GVI vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 5.0%
More comparisons with SHY
- SHY vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 22.9%
- SHY vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 15.9%
- SHY vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.3%
- SHY vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 14.9%
- SHY vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 14.8%
- SHY vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF 14.3%
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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