ETF comparison
SHY vs STIP
US Treasury (Short) vs TIPS.
iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF · iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHY and STIP 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
STIP is 12 bps cheaper than SHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/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 SHY vs STIP.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
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%
Only in STIP
24 total- United States of America 5.36%
- United States of America 5.31%
- United States of America 5.28%
- United States of America 5.17%
- United States of America 4.99%
- United States of America 4.97%
- United States of America 4.83%
- United States of America 4.75%
- United States of America 4.70%
- United States of America 4.70%
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- SHY vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs TIPX · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-10 Year TIPS ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs TLH · iShares 10-20 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with STIP
- STIP vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- STIP vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- STIP vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- STIP vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 94.0%
- STIP vs TIPX · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-10 Year TIPS ETF 58.9%
- STIP vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 50.4%
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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