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TLT
5 articles on this site analyse TLT — 1 of them head-on.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-05-31TLT reports 47 positions, but the weights make it behave like about 31.8 equally weighted ones. Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing — see what this measure does not tell you and the full table.
The same filing says what kind of price those positions carry: 1.06% of TLT is held at a quoted market price, from a single issuer country . Comparisons across every fund are in the valuation table, and what a low share does and does not mean is worth reading before drawing a conclusion from it.
Every filing since 2019
27Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, TLT went from behaving like 19.8 equally weighted positions to 31.8 — 61% more, while its top ten went from 60.76% to 41.92% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 47 | 31.8 | 41.92% | 4.58% |
| 2026-02-28 | 46 | 31 | 43.46% | 4.84% |
| 2025-11-30 | 45 | 30.4 | 43.89% | 5.02% |
| 2025-08-31 | 44 | 30.1 | 44.69% | 5.73% |
| 2025-05-31 | 42 | 28.5 | 46.93% | 6.37% |
| 2025-02-28 | 47 | 27.8 | 48.14% | 6.41% |
| 2024-11-30 | 47 | 27.8 | 47.84% | 6.42% |
| 2024-08-31 | 46 | 26.5 | 49.33% | 7.02% |
| 2024-05-31 | 45 | 25.1 | 51.36% | 7.81% |
| 2024-02-29 | 43 | 24.5 | 53.06% | 8.09% |
| 2023-11-30 | 42 | 24.3 | 52.99% | 8.08% |
| 2023-08-31 | 41 | 22.7 | 56.08% | 9.5% |
| 2023-05-31 | 36 | 19.8 | 61.05% | 10.82% |
| 2023-02-28 | 36 | 19.6 | 61.45% | 10.84% |
| 2022-11-30 | 33 | 18.9 | 63.27% | 10.96% |
| 2022-08-31 | 33 | 17.9 | 64.22% | 12.8% |
| 2022-05-31 | 34 | 18.1 | 63.58% | 12.82% |
| 2022-02-28 | 37 | 19.4 | 61.17% | 11.12% |
| 2021-11-30 | 37 | 18.9 | 62.37% | 11.69% |
| 2021-08-31 | 31 | 19.7 | 60.22% | 10.25% |
| 2021-05-31 | 39 | 17.5 | 63.61% | 8.85% |
| 2021-02-28 | 39 | 21.2 | 57.3% | 8.69% |
| 2020-11-30 | 52 | 22.7 | 54.56% | 8.73% |
| 2020-08-31 | 48 | 20.8 | 58.94% | 9.35% |
| 2020-05-31 | 46 | 20.6 | 59.37% | 9.39% |
| 2020-02-29 | 40 | 20.4 | 59.33% | 9.17% |
| 2019-11-30 | 37 | 19.8 | 60.76% | 8.84% |
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.
Measures applied to it
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Duration and Convexity: What Bond-ETF Investors Get Wrong About Rate Sensitivity
Duration, not credit, is the dominant risk in high-quality bond ETFs — and TLT carries roughly three times BND's. Convexity is real but it is a second-order...
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TLT vs IEF vs SHY: Building a Treasury Duration Ladder for Different Rate Scenarios
TLT, IEF, and SHY charge the same 0.15% expense ratio, so this decision is not about cost — it is entirely about how much interest-rate duration you want to...
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The "All-Weather" AI Portfolio: Combining Diversification with Predictive Power
Dalio's "all-weather" idea is sound on its merits — risk-balanced exposure across four macro environments — and is implementable today with five or six...
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What SGOV and Gold Actually Do: A Quant Look at Defensive Assets in 2026
SGOV's five-year realized volatility is 0.2% and its worst drawdown was 0.03% — it behaves like cash with a yield, not like a "bond." The 3.9% distribution...
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Tax-Loss Harvesting and the After-Tax Compounding Gap: What the Math Actually Shows
Over a 30-year horizon, a 1-percentage-point reduction in annual tax drag compounds into roughly a one-third increase in terminal wealth — not because of...
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