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TIPX vs VGSH

TIPS vs US Treasury (Short).

State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-10 Year TIPS ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

TIPX unmatched 99.5% Shared 0.0% VGSH unmatched 99.0%

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 TIPX only
31 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VGSH only
91 positions

Side by side

TIPX

State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-10 Year TIPS ETF

State Street · TIPS

72 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$2.01B
TTM yield
5.06%
Top-10 conc.
38.8%
VGSH

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Treasury (Short)

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$39.49B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
3.77%
Top-10 conc.
13.9%

Sub-score comparison

85
Cost
97
48
Tax efficiency
58
70
Liquidity
100
N/A
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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TIPX sub-score VGSH

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VGSH is 12 bps cheaper than TIPX. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for TIPX.

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 TIPX vs VGSH.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in TIPX

31 total
  • United States Treasury 4.51%
  • United States Treasury 4.24%
  • United States Treasury 3.99%
  • United States Treasury 3.90%
  • United States Treasury 3.81%
  • United States Treasury 3.78%
  • United States Treasury 3.71%
  • United States Treasury 3.70%
  • United States Treasury 3.60%
  • United States Treasury 3.60%

Only in VGSH

91 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.24%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.40%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.35%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.31%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.30%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.29%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%

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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.