ETF comparison
IGOV vs VTIP
International Bond vs TIPS.
iShares International Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IGOV and VTIP 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
VTIP is 32 bps cheaper than IGOV. On a $100,000 position that's about $320/yr more in fees for IGOV.
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 IGOV vs VTIP.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in IGOV
965 total- Portugal Obrigacoes do Tesouro OT 0.52%
- Denmark Government Bonds 0.45%
- SLOVAKIA GOVERNMENT BOND 0.38%
- U.K. Gilts 0.37%
- Portugal Obrigacoes do Tesouro OT 0.37%
- French Republic Government Bonds OAT 0.37%
- Portugal Obrigacoes do Tesouro OT 0.36%
- Israel Government Bonds - Fixed 0.33%
- JAPAN (10 YEAR ISSUE) 0.32%
- French Republic Government Bonds OAT 0.31%
Only in VTIP
25 total- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.39%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.33%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.30%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.14%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.97%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.74%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.70%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.59%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with IGOV
- IGOV vs VWOB · Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- IGOV vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 42.7%
- IGOV vs IAGG · iShares Core International Aggregate Bond ETF 37.6%
- IGOV vs EBND · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF 7.1%
- IGOV vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
- IGOV vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
More comparisons with VTIP
- VTIP vs IGSB · iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs ITM · VanEck Intermediate Muni ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs JAAA · Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs JMST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Municipal Income 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/.
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