ETF comparison
SHY vs VWOB
US Treasury (Short) vs International Bond.
iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHY and VWOB 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.15% vs 0.15%).
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 VWOB.
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 VWOB
930 total- Argentine Republic Government International Bond 1.20%
- Argentine Republic Government International Bond 0.71%
- Argentine Republic Government International Bond 0.67%
- Argentine Republic Government International Bond 0.58%
- Petroleos Mexicanos 0.55%
- Petroleos Mexicanos 0.51%
- Eagle Funding Luxco Sarl 0.47%
- Eagle Funding Luxco Sarl 0.41%
- Qatar Government International Bond 0.38%
- Qatar Government International Bond 0.38%
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- SHY vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 87.7%
- SHY vs SCHO · Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 81.4%
- SHY vs SPTS · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Treasury ETF 81.0%
- SHY vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 37.4%
- SHY vs GVI · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 27.3%
More comparisons with VWOB
- VWOB vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
- VWOB vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VWOB vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VWOB vs EMB · iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF 57.1%
- VWOB vs PCY · Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF 8.5%
- VWOB vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 1.0%
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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