ETF comparison
TLT vs VUSB
US Treasury (Long) vs US Aggregate Bond.
iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of TLT and VUSB 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
VUSB is 5 bps cheaper than TLT. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/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 VUSB.
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 VUSB
1,281 total- United States Treasury Bill 4.19%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.67%
- PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The 0.58%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.52%
- Regions Bank/Birmingham AL 0.51%
- US Bancorp 0.50%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 0.49%
- Truist Bank 0.44%
- Westlake Flooring Master Trust 0.44%
- DLLAD 2024-1 LLC 0.43%
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- TLT vs SPTL · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Treasury ETF 51.6%
- TLT vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 51.3%
- TLT vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 28.3%
- TLT vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 11.6%
- TLT vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 11.4%
More comparisons with VUSB
- VUSB vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VUSB vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VUSB vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VUSB vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 10.4%
- VUSB vs MINT · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 8.2%
- VUSB vs FLOT · iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF 7.8%
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/.
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