ETF comparison
IEI vs SHY
US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US Treasury (Short).
iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEI and SHY would leave roughly 0.0% 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 IEI vs SHY.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in IEI
83 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 2.11%
- 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%
Only in SHY
89 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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- IEI vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- IEI vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- IEI vs VGIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 69.3%
More comparisons with SHY
- SHY vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs IGOV · iShares International Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs ITM · VanEck Intermediate Muni ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs JAAA · Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF 0.0%
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.