ETF comparison
ICSH vs SHY
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
iShares Ultra Short Duration Bond Active ETF · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ICSH and SHY would leave roughly 0.6% 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
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
ICSH is 7 bps cheaper than SHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for SHY.
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 ICSH vs SHY.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In ICSH | In SHY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.31% | 1.32% | 0.31% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.42% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
Only in ICSH
366 total- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria/New York NY 0.91%
- BPCE SA 0.91%
- Marubeni Finance America LLC 0.77%
- Cooperatieve Rabobank UA/NY 0.74%
- Svenska Handelsbanken AB 0.72%
- NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL GLBL 0.70%
- MIZUHO BK LTD NEW YORK BRH INS 0.70%
- TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORP 0.68%
- CDP Financial Inc 0.68%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Trust NY 0.67%
Only in SHY
87 total- United States of America 1.96%
- United States of America 1.84%
- United States of America 1.71%
- United States of America 1.60%
- United States of America 1.60%
- United States of America 1.52%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.45%
- United States of America 1.43%
- United States of America 1.40%
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- SHY vs VTC · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares 0.0%
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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/.
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