ETF comparison
TLT vs USIG
US Treasury (Long) vs US Corporate Bond.
iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of TLT and USIG 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
USIG is 11 bps cheaper than TLT. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/yr more in fees for TLT.
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 TLT vs USIG.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in TLT
46 total- United States of America 4.58%
- United States of America 4.50%
- United States of America 4.46%
- United States of America 4.40%
- United States of America 4.15%
- United States of America 4.04%
- United States of America 4.03%
- United States of America 3.95%
- United States of America 3.94%
- United States of America 3.86%
Only in USIG
11,458 total- ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV 0.09%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 0.09%
- EAGLE FUNDING LUXCO SARL 0.08%
- CVS HEALTH CORP 0.08%
- T-MOBILE USA INC 0.07%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.07%
- META PLATFORMS INC 0.06%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.06%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.06%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 0.06%
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- TLT vs VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- TLT vs VGIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- TLT vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
More comparisons with USIG
- USIG vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- USIG vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- USIG vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- USIG vs VTC · Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares 47.8%
- USIG vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF 46.7%
- USIG vs LQD · iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 42.4%
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.