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TLT vs VGIT

US Treasury (Long) vs US Treasury (Intermediate).

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

TLT unmatched 98.2% Shared 0.0% VGIT unmatched 98.7%

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 TLT only
46 positions
Shared
0 positions
In VGIT only
103 positions

Side by side

TLT

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF

iShares · US Treasury (Long)

83 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$46.23B
TTM yield
4.78%
Top-10 conc.
41.9%
VGIT

Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Treasury (Intermediate)

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$47.83B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
3.99%
Top-10 conc.
18.8%

Sub-score comparison

85
Cost
97
56
Tax efficiency
58
100
Liquidity
100
N/A
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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TLT sub-score VGIT

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

Cost difference

VGIT is 12 bps cheaper than TLT. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/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 VGIT.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No 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 VGIT

103 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.94%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.92%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.90%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.89%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.89%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.87%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.87%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.84%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.83%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.81%

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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.