ETF comparison
SPHY vs VTIP
US High Yield Bond vs TIPS.
State Street SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPHY and VTIP 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
VTIP is 2 bps cheaper than SPHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for SPHY.
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 SPHY vs VTIP.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in SPHY
1,929 total- 1261229 BC LTD 0.42%
- ECHOSTAR CORP 0.40%
- MERIDIAN ARC HOLDCO LLC 0.40%
- PR RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.30%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC 0.28%
- QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC 0.28%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC 0.27%
- SV RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.27%
- AMERICAN AIRLINES/AADVAN 0.25%
- ASURION LLC/ASURION CO 0.25%
Only in VTIP
25 total- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.39%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.33%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.30%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.14%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.97%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.74%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.70%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.59%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with SPHY
- SPHY vs USHY · iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 79.5%
- SPHY vs SCYB · Schwab High Yield Bond ETF 75.8%
- SPHY vs HYG · iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 69.7%
- SPHY vs HYLB · Xtrackers USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 66.3%
- SPHY vs JNK · State Street SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF 64.5%
- SPHY vs SHYG · iShares 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 56.4%
More comparisons with VTIP
- VTIP vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SPMB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SPSB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SPTI · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Treasury ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SPTL · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Treasury 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.