iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF
iShares · Tracks ICE U.S. Treasury Core Bond Index · Inception Feb 14, 2012
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- -0.6%
- 3 year
- +4.3%
- annualized
- 5 year
- -0.7%
- annualized
Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.
Composite score
Based on a 0.050% expense ratio.
Based on $41.37B in net assets.
Top-10 holdings represent 21.7% of net assets. Not scored for Treasury and TIPS funds: every holding is the same issuer, so the figure counts issues, not diversification. See methodology.
US Treasury (Intermediate) base · ETF wrapper · 3.75% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.2).
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Underlying holdings, with other funds added
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Tool · Cost
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Compounds the 0.050% expense ratio against a peer over decades.
Tool · Overlap
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Pairwise holdings heatmap, pre-loaded with similar US Treasury (Intermediate) funds.
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Asset location for GOVT across account types
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 5.28% |
| 2 | United States of America | 2.95% |
| 3 | United States of America | 2.63% |
| 4 | United States of America | 2.08% |
| 5 | United States of America | 1.62% |
| 6 | United States of America | 1.48% |
| 7 | United States of America | 1.46% |
| 8 | United States of America | 1.46% |
| 9 | United States of America | 1.38% |
| 10 | United States of America | 1.37% |
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- SCHR Schwab Intermediate-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 39.6% overlap
- BSV Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 37.6% overlap
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