ETF comparison
SCHZ vs SPTS
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Treasury ETF
Holdings overlap
94 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SCHZ and SPTS would leave roughly 16.0% 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 (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 SCHZ vs SPTS.
Top shared holdings
94 shared in total| # | Holding | In SCHZ | In SPTS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.35% | 1.82% | 0.35% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.30% | 1.37% | 0.30% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.28% | 0.85% | 0.28% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 0.28% | 1.21% | 0.28% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.24% | 0.87% | 0.24% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.24% | 1.21% | 0.24% |
| 7 | United States Treasury | 0.24% | 1.37% | 0.24% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.23% | 1.13% | 0.23% |
| 9 | United States Treasury | 0.22% | 1.42% | 0.22% |
| 10 | United States Treasury | 0.22% | 1.36% | 0.22% |
| 11 | United States Treasury | 0.22% | 1.27% | 0.22% |
| 12 | United States Treasury | 0.22% | 0.77% | 0.22% |
Only in SCHZ
12,232 total- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
Only in SPTS
2 total- United States Treasury 1.10%
- United States Treasury 0.76%
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- SCHZ vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 15.1%
- SCHZ vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 14.9%
- SCHZ vs IEI · iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF 14.6%
- SCHZ vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 14.6%
- SCHZ vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF 14.3%
More comparisons with SPTS
- SPTS vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 15.0%
- SPTS vs BIL · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF 0.0%
- SPTS vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SPTS vs GBIL · Goldman Sachs Access Treasury 0-1 Year ETF 0.0%
- SPTS vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 0.0%
- SPTS vs SGOV · iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond 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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