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GOVT Bonds — Treasuries ETF (GOVT)

Bonds — Treasuries · Benchmark: Bloomberg US Agg Bond Index · Domiciled in US

AUM
$6.0B
Expense ratio
20.00%
Inception
2020-06-15
VMCI-Composite
66/100
5y CAGR
16.7%

VMCI-Composite holdings score

ValueMarkers builds the VMCI-Composite by taking the underlying VMCI score for each of the ETF's top-10 holdings and weighting it by the holding's share of the fund. The number summarizes the fundamentals of the largest positions on the five-pillar framework — Value, Quality, Integrity, Growth, Risk.

GOVT Bonds — Treasuries ETF — analysis

For the bonds — treasuries sleeve, GOVT is the $6.0B-AUM option from the issuer family. The expense ratio runs 20 bps on top of the underlying Bloomberg US Agg Bond Index return. Live trading record: 2020-present.

For ETF buyers who want a single fundamentals number, GOVT VMCI-Composite is 66/100. The score is constructed from the top-10 underlying holdings, weighted by their fund weight, and reflects above-average composite quality in the underlying portfolio.

Five-year CAGR on GOVT is 16.7%, against 16.0% on the Bloomberg US Agg Bond Index. The 0.7-percentage-point spread is the cleanest single measure of tracking-and-after-cost behaviour over the period; the three-year CAGR runs 16.5% and the trailing one-year is 6.8%.

Yield read on GOVT: 3.20% TTM. The 5-year distribution growth rate of 1.7% per year extends that snapshot into a longer-horizon income picture for buyers comparing ETFs in this category.

Top-10 of GOVT accounts for 30% of fund weight, with AAPL the single largest position (3.57%). Sector lead: Technology at 32%, which is the cohort-comparison anchor for active-vs-passive analysis.

Three ETFs to read alongside GOVT: AGG, BND. They share the bonds — treasuries mandate but diverge on cost, AUM, and the underlying index family, which is how most allocators end up choosing between them.

Top 25 holdings

#TickerWeightVMCI
1AAPL3.57%72
2MSFT3.49%50
3NVDA3.40%69
4AMZN3.15%76
5GOOGL2.93%62
6META2.93%63
7BRK-B2.72%84
8TSLA2.55%42
9V2.55%64
10JPM2.47%83
11UNH2.38%89
12XOM2.13%76
13JNJ1.91%68
14PG1.74%87
15MA1.62%60
16HD1.62%68
17MRK1.40%52
18AVGO1.40%75
19PEP1.19%61
20COST1.02%53
21KO1.02%52
22WMT0.94%40
23BAC0.68%70
24CVX0.64%63
25ADBE0.55%82

Performance & income

YTD
7.7%
1y total return
6.8%
3y CAGR
16.5%
5y CAGR vs benchmark
16.7% / 16.0%
Dividend yield
3.20%
5y distribution CAGR
1.7%

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