ETF comparison
SGOV vs VGSH
Both US Treasury (Short).
iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SGOV and VGSH 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
VGSH is 6 bps cheaper than SGOV. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for SGOV.
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 VGSH.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo 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 VGSH
91 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.24%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.40%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.35%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.31%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.30%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.29%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
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- SGOV vs VBIL · Vanguard 0-3 Month Treasury Bill ETF 50.1%
- SGOV vs SHV · iShares 0–1 Year Treasury Bond ETF 31.2%
- SGOV vs GBIL · Goldman Sachs Access Treasury 0-1 Year ETF 23.9%
- SGOV vs BIL · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF 17.4%
- SGOV vs TBIL · F/m US Treasury 3 Month Bill Fund - ETF Class Shares 3.7%
More comparisons with VGSH
- VGSH vs SHM · State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE Short Term Municipal Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs SHYG · iShares 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs SJNK · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Short Term High Yield Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs SPHY · State Street SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate 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/.
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.