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SHY vs ZROZ

US Treasury (Short) vs US Treasury (Long).

iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF · PIMCO 25+ Year Zero Coupon U.S. Treasury Index Exchange-Traded Fund

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHY and ZROZ would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

SHY unmatched 99.0% Shared 0.0% ZROZ unmatched 100.0%

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 SHY only
89 positions
Shared
0 positions
In ZROZ only
20 positions

Side by side

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%
ZROZ

PIMCO 25+ Year Zero Coupon U.S. Treasury Index Exchange-Traded Fund

PIMCO · US Treasury (Long)

73 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$1.88B
TTM yield
5.25%
Top-10 conc.
53.3%

Sub-score comparison

85
Cost
85
58
Tax efficiency
55
100
Liquidity
68
N/A
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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SHY sub-score ZROZ

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 ZROZ.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No 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 ZROZ

20 total
  • United States Treasury 5.55%
  • United States Treasury 5.48%
  • United States Treasury 5.42%
  • United States Treasury 5.40%
  • United States Treasury 5.29%
  • United States Treasury 5.27%
  • United States Treasury 5.26%
  • United States Treasury 5.26%
  • United States Treasury 5.23%
  • United States Treasury 5.16%

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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.