ETF comparison
IEF vs IEI
Both US Treasury (Intermediate).
iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF · iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
3 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEF and IEI would leave roughly 1.0% 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.15% vs 0.15%).
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 IEF vs IEI.
Top shared holdings
3 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEF | In IEI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.38% | 0.89% | 0.38% |
| 2 | United States of America | 1.47% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.30% | 2.11% | 0.30% |
Only in IEF
12 total- United States of America 9.54%
- United States of America 8.78%
- United States of America 8.75%
- United States of America 8.73%
- United States of America 8.71%
- United States of America 8.63%
- United States of America 8.53%
- United States of America 8.31%
- United States of America 8.22%
- United States of America 6.73%
Only in IEI
80 total- United States of America 2.90%
- United States of America 2.28%
- United States of America 2.26%
- United States of America 2.23%
- United States of America 2.09%
- United States of America 2.09%
- United States of America 2.08%
- United States of America 2.05%
- United States of America 1.93%
- United States of America 1.92%
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- IEF vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
- IEF vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- IEF vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
More comparisons with IEI
- IEI vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- IEI vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 0.0%
- IEI vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- IEI vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
- IEI vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- IEI vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open IEF or IEI 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.