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SGOV vs SHY

Both US Treasury (Short).

iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond 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 SGOV and SHY would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SGOV unmatched 107.9% 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 SGOV only
22 positions
Shared
0 positions
In SHY only
89 positions

Side by side

SGOV

iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF

iShares · US Treasury (Short)

86 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.090%
Net assets
$112.26B
TTM yield
3.64%
Top-10 conc.
72.4%
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

91
Cost
85
58
Tax efficiency
58
100
Liquidity
100
N/A
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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SGOV sub-score SHY

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

Cost difference

SGOV is 6 bps cheaper than SHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for SHY.

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 SGOV vs SHY.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in SGOV

22 total
  • United States of America 10.14%
  • United States of America 8.64%
  • United States of America 8.54%
  • United States of America 8.33%
  • United States of America 7.09%
  • United States of America 6.87%
  • United States of America 6.76%
  • United States of America 5.99%
  • United States of America 5.08%
  • United States of America 4.91%

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/.

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.