IEF Bonds — 7-10y Treasuries ETF (IEF)

IEF Bonds — 7-10y Treasuries ETF — analysis

In the bonds — 7-10y treasuries group, IEF Bonds — 7-10y Treasuries ETF (IEF) has gathered $200.4B. The cost line is 58 bps per year, the benchmark is Bloomberg US Agg Bond Index, and the fund has traded since 2010.

On the ValueMarkers VMCI-Composite read, IEF scores 64/100. The score is the weighted average of the underlying VMCI ratings across the top 10 holdings, which together represent roughly 30% of the fund. That places IEF in above-average composite quality territory inside the Bonds — 7-10y Treasuries cohort.

IEF compounded at 8.5% per year over the trailing five years, which compares to 7.0% on the benchmark. The 1.5-pp gap captures expense drag plus any active deviation in the strategy.

Trailing yield on IEF is 3.00%, with distributions growing at 5.5% annualized over five years. That combination is the simplest read on whether the fund is structured for current income or distribution growth.

IEF weight stack: top 10 names equal 30%, sector tilt Technology 29%, single-name concentration peaks at AAPL (3.57%). Those three numbers describe the fund's risk shape on a single screen.

Peer ETFs covering the same mandate as IEF: TLT, SHY. The practical comparison runs on issuer reliability, expense ratio, holdings concentration, and tax efficiency, all of which ValueMarkers surfaces on the individual ETF pages.