ETF comparison
SPTS vs VTIP
US Treasury (Short) vs TIPS.
State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Treasury ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPTS 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 SPTS vs VTIP.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in SPTS
96 total- United States Treasury 1.82%
- United States Treasury 1.42%
- United States Treasury 1.37%
- United States Treasury 1.37%
- United States Treasury 1.37%
- United States Treasury 1.36%
- United States Treasury 1.36%
- United States Treasury 1.30%
- United States Treasury 1.29%
- United States Treasury 1.29%
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 SPTS
- SPTS vs SCHO · Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 91.4%
- SPTS vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 86.5%
- SPTS vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 81.0%
- SPTS vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 26.8%
- SPTS vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 17.1%
- SPTS vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 16.0%
More comparisons with VTIP
- VTIP vs SRLN · State Street Blackstone Senior Loan ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SUB · iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs TBIL · F/m US Treasury 3 Month Bill Fund - ETF Class Shares 0.0%
- VTIP vs TFLO · iShares Treasury Floating Rate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs TLH · iShares 10-20 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury 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.