SGOV holdings

Computed 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: 0.86% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.

SGOV's largest investment is U.S. Treasury Bills at 10.14% of net assets. U.S. Treasury Bills and U.S. Treasury Bills follow; the three together are 27.31%. Ten companies are 66.79% of the fund; the other 13 share the rest. Among the 12 short-term funds measured here, SGOV behaves like 17.2 holdings against a median of 9.5 — 1.8 times the median. Across 25 quarterly filings SGOV has become less concentrated: it behaved like 3.1 at 2020-05-31 and 17.2 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 22 positions were added and 22 dropped; 99.6% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable short-term funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Between 2020-05-31 and 2026-05-31, SGOV went from behaving like 3.1 equally weighted positions to 17.2 — 455% more, while its top ten went from 100% to 66.79% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

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.

Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.

The 15 largest of 23 positions in SGOV's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: SGOV.csv.gz.

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of SGOV's own filings, 73 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.01 percentage points over 71 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: SGOV.json · all funds.

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-05-31, $432m was out to 3 borrowers, 0.47% of net assets. The largest, STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY, held 64.7% of it.

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.48% of net assets, 102% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter SGOV has filed, with each borrower: SGOV.json · all funds.

23 positions became 23: 22 added (99.6% of the fund at the later date), 22 dropped (99.5% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 99.6%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of SGOV compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

New: United States of America (9.36%), United States of America (7.98%), United States of America (7.88%), United States of America (7.69%), United States of America (6.55%), United States of America (6.34%). Gone: United States of America (10.05%), United States of America (9.10%), United States of America (8.43%), United States of America (7.92%), United States of America (7.92%), United States of America (6.14%).

100.00% short-term investment as filed; 0.9% 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.

Every measured short-term investment fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of SGOV (17.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

• 037 Expense ratio
• 036 Duration
• 034 Maximum drawdown
• 021 Total return
• 018 Standard deviation
• 014 Factor exposure
• 014 Beta
• 012 Rebalancing bands

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