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ETF comparison

TLT vs VWOB

US Treasury (Long) vs International Bond.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF · Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

TLT unmatched 98.2% Shared 0.0% VWOB unmatched 97.6%

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
45 positions
Shared
1 positions
In VWOB only
929 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%
VWOB

Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Bond

82 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$6.58B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
6.10%
Top-10 conc.
5.9%

Sub-score comparison

85
Cost
85
56
Tax efficiency
48
100
Liquidity
92
N/A
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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TLT sub-score VWOB

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

Cost difference

Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.15% vs 0.15%).

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 VWOB.

Top shared holdings

1 shared in total
# Holding In TLT In VWOB Overlap
1 United States of America 3.95% 0.02% 0.02%

Only in TLT

45 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 3.94%
  • United States of America 3.86%
  • United States of America 3.80%

Only in VWOB

929 total
  • Argentine Republic Government International Bond 1.20%
  • Argentine Republic Government International Bond 0.71%
  • Argentine Republic Government International Bond 0.67%
  • Argentine Republic Government International Bond 0.58%
  • Petroleos Mexicanos 0.55%
  • Petroleos Mexicanos 0.51%
  • Eagle Funding Luxco Sarl 0.47%
  • Eagle Funding Luxco Sarl 0.41%
  • Qatar Government International Bond 0.38%
  • Qatar Government International Bond 0.38%

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.