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PCY vs SHY

International Bond vs US Treasury (Short).

Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PCY and SHY would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

PCY unmatched 98.4% Shared 0.0% SHY unmatched 99.0%

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.

In PCY only
103 positions
Shared
0 positions
In SHY only
89 positions

Side by side

PCY

Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF

Invesco · International Bond

59 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.50%
Net assets
$1.17B
TTM yield
6.28%
Top-10 conc.
11.4%
SHY

iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF

iShares · US Treasury (Short)

83 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$26.28B
TTM yield
3.62%
Top-10 conc.
16.0%

Sub-score comparison

50
Cost
85
48
Tax efficiency
58
59
Liquidity
100
98
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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PCY sub-score SHY

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

SHY is 35 bps cheaper than PCY. On a $100,000 position that's about $350/yr more in fees for PCY.

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 PCY vs SHY.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in PCY

103 total
  • Republic of Poland Government International Bond 1.46%
  • Pakistan Government International Bond 1.43%
  • Pakistan Government International Bond 1.43%
  • Angolan Government International Bond 1.04%
  • Angolan Government International Bond 1.04%
  • Nigeria Government International Bond 1.02%
  • Trinidad & Tobago Government International Bond 1.01%
  • El Salvador Government International Bond 1.01%
  • Nigeria Government International Bond 1.01%
  • Colombia Government International Bond 1.00%

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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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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