ETF comparison
IEI vs VGIT
Both US Treasury (Intermediate).
iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
83 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IEI and VGIT would leave roughly 68.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VGIT is 12 bps cheaper than IEI. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for IEI.
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 VGIT.
Top shared holdings
83 shared in total| # | Holding | In IEI | In VGIT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 2.28% | 1.66% | 1.66% |
| 2 | United States of America | 1.75% | 1.65% | 1.65% |
| 3 | United States of America | 2.09% | 1.58% | 1.58% |
| 4 | United States of America | 1.59% | 1.58% | 1.58% |
| 5 | United States of America | 2.26% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 6 | United States of America | 2.09% | 1.49% | 1.49% |
| 7 | United States of America | 2.08% | 1.48% | 1.48% |
| 8 | United States of America | 2.05% | 1.47% | 1.47% |
| 9 | United States of America | 1.92% | 1.42% | 1.42% |
| 10 | United States of America | 1.81% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 11 | United States of America | 1.29% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
| 12 | United States of America | 1.48% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
Only in IEI
3 total- BlackRock Funds III 0.15%
- United States of America 0.01%
- United States of America 0.00%
Only in VGIT
19 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.98%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.96%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.93%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.91%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.91%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.91%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.89%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.89%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.84%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.73%
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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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