Fund · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · measured from SEC filings
GOVT holdings
GOVT reports 215 holdings and behaves like 92.9 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-07-31Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 0.54% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31GOVT's largest investment is U.S. Treasury Notes at 5.25% of net assets. U.S. Treasury Notes and U.S. Treasury Notes follow; the three together are 10.77%. Ten companies are 21.91% of the fund; the other 205 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, GOVT behaves like 92.9 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 2.6 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings GOVT has become less concentrated: it behaved like 55 at 2019-10-31 and 94.2 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 14 positions were added and 0 dropped; 5.7% of the weight moved.
Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable bond funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.
Every filing since 2019
27Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, GOVT went from behaving like 55 equally weighted positions to 94.2 — 71% more, while its top ten went from 30.24% to 21.96% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 224 | 94.2 | 21.96% | 5.3% |
| 2026-01-31 | 210 | 91.2 | 22.35% | 5.28% |
| 2025-10-31 | 213 | 83.9 | 24.69% | 5.24% |
| 2025-07-31 | 212 | 81.5 | 25.23% | 5.21% |
| 2025-04-30 | 200 | 79.3 | 25.55% | 5.18% |
| 2025-01-31 | 192 | 78 | 25.76% | 5.08% |
| 2024-10-31 | 183 | 75.4 | 26.33% | 5.06% |
| 2024-07-31 | 201 | 72.6 | 27.13% | 5.07% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 184 | 69.4 | 28.12% | 4.99% |
| 2024-01-31 | 176 | 67.2 | 28.61% | 5.03% |
| 2023-10-31 | 171 | 60.6 | 30.92% | 4.93% |
| 2023-07-31 | 148 | 48.6 | 35.8% | 5.27% |
| 2023-04-30 | 143 | 42.3 | 39.12% | 6.53% |
| 2023-01-31 | 130 | 41 | 39.16% | 6.5% |
| 2022-10-31 | 132 | 40.4 | 39.17% | 6.69% |
| 2022-07-31 | 120 | 39.8 | 39.01% | 6.26% |
| 2022-04-30 | 194 | 40.2 | 38.67% | 6.29% |
| 2022-01-31 | 113 | 40.2 | 39.13% | 6.16% |
| 2021-10-31 | 151 | 39.4 | 39.57% | 6.04% |
| 2021-07-31 | 176 | 55.5 | 29.94% | 4.42% |
| 2021-04-30 | 191 | 54.5 | 30.21% | 4.85% |
| 2021-01-31 | 173 | 61.1 | 28.37% | 4.71% |
| 2020-10-31 | 206 | 60.7 | 28.16% | 4.6% |
| 2020-07-31 | 190 | 55.9 | 30.82% | 5.14% |
| 2020-04-30 | 197 | 56 | 30.87% | 5.1% |
| 2020-01-31 | 151 | 50.2 | 33.8% | 5.33% |
| 2019-10-31 | 132 | 55 | 30.24% | 4.91% |
One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-04-30The 15 largest of 215 positions in GOVT's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: GOVT.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 5.30% | 5.3% |
| 2 | United States of America | 2.95% | 8.3% |
| 3 | United States of America | 2.62% | 10.9% |
| 4 | United States of America | 2.08% | 13.0% |
| 5 | United States of America | 1.61% | 14.6% |
| 6 | United States of America | 1.57% | 16.1% |
| 7 | United States of America | 1.53% | 17.7% |
| 8 | United States of America | 1.50% | 19.2% |
| 9 | United States of America | 1.41% | 20.6% |
| 10 | United States of America | 1.39% | 22.0% |
| 11 | United States of America | 1.35% | 23.3% |
| 12 | United States of America | 1.08% | 24.4% |
| 13 | United States of America | 1.02% | 25.4% |
| 14 | United States of America | 1.00% | 26.4% |
| 15 | United States of America | 0.98% | 27.4% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of GOVT's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.05 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: GOVT.json · all funds.
Who borrows GOVT's shares
2026-07-31The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $96m was out to 2 borrowers. The largest, STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY, held 51.9% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY | $50m | 51.9% |
| Societe Generale | $46m | 48.1% |
The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter GOVT has filed, with each borrower: GOVT.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30210 positions became 224: 14 added (5.1% of the fund at the later date), 0 dropped (0.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 5.7%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of GOVT compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States of America | 0.22% | 0.40% | United States of America | 1.67% | 0.01% |
| United States of America | 0.47% | 0.62% | United States of America | 1.16% | 0.03% |
| BlackRock Funds III | 0.16% | 0.24% | United States of America | 0.81% | 0.00% |
| United States of America | 5.28% | 5.30% | United States of America | 0.73% | 0.02% |
| United States of America | 2.61% | 2.62% | United States of America | 0.58% | 0.01% |
| United States of America | 0.97% | 0.98% | United States of America | 0.19% | 0.01% |
New: United States of America (0.63%), United States of America (0.50%), United States of America (0.50%), United States of America (0.49%), United States of America (0.49%), United States of America (0.45%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-3199.46% debt, 0.54% short-term investment as filed; 0.5% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.
Neighbours by effective holdings, debt funds
10Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of GOVT (92.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CGCP Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF | 1,476 | 84.5 * | 25.35% | 2026-06-30 |
| ANGL VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF | 129 | 86.1 | 22.76% | 2026-07-31 |
| APLU Allspring Core Plus ETF | 543 | 86.2 | 26.63% | 2026-05-31 |
| VGSH Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund | 92 | 88.2 | 14% | 2026-05-31 |
| SCHO Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF | 97 | 89 | 14.49% | 2026-06-30 |
| THYF T. Rowe Price U.S. High Yield ETF | 110 | 93.9 | 16.34% | 2026-05-31 |
| YLD Principal Active High Yield ETF | 149 | 94.3 | 17.92% | 2026-06-30 |
| PCY Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF | 103 | 101.5 | 11.64% | 2026-07-31 |
| CMDT PIMCO Commodity Strategy Active Exchange-Traded Fund | 371 | 103.2 * | 20.28% | 2026-06-30 |
| HFSI Hartford Strategic Income ETF | 1,179 | 104.1 * | 24.1% | 2026-07-31 |
Essays that examine GOVT
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