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iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)

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

AUM
$34.1B
Expense ratio
54.00%
Inception
2014-04-15
VMCI-Composite
61/100
5y CAGR
17.1%

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.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF — analysis

Top-line read on TLT: $34.1B of investor capital sitting inside the bonds — long treasuries iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF fund, with the issuer charging 54 bps on top of total expenses each year. Inception 2014-04-15, benchmark Bloomberg US Agg Bond Index.

On the underlying-fundamentals lens, TLT prints VMCI-Composite 61/100. The composite is a weighted mean of the top-10 holdings' VMCI scores, so a higher number indicates the fund's largest positions screen well on the five-pillar framework against Bloomberg US Agg Bond Index alternatives.

Against Bloomberg US Agg Bond Index, TLT compounded 17.1% per year over five years (benchmark: 16.0%). Tracking quality on the bonds — long treasuries sleeve reads fair on that single statistic.

TLT income summary: 1.60% trailing yield, distributions up 5.1% per year over five years. The yield sits in the mid-yield band for the bonds — long treasuries cohort.

Concentration: top-10 holdings represent 31% of TLT, with AAPL as the largest position at 3.63% of the fund. The sector tilt leans to Technology (33%), which is the dominant exposure investors should size around.

Direct peer set for TLT: IEF, SHY. The comparison is most useful on three lines — expense ratio, tracking error to Bloomberg US Agg Bond Index, and distribution behaviour over five years.

Top 25 holdings

#TickerWeightVMCI
1AAPL3.63%56
2MSFT3.77%84
3NVDA3.43%53
4AMZN3.38%60
5GOOGL3.09%46
6META2.89%47
7BRK-B3.04%68
8TSLA2.70%76
9V2.65%48
10JPM2.55%67
11UNH2.25%73
12XOM2.01%60
13JNJ2.01%52
14PG1.91%71
15MA1.62%44
16HD1.57%52
17MRK1.47%86
18AVGO1.18%59
19PEP1.13%45
20COST0.88%87
21KO0.69%86
22WMT0.83%74
23BAC0.69%54
24CVX0.34%47
25ADBE0.29%66

Performance & income

YTD
11.1%
1y total return
-38.6%
3y CAGR
14.4%
5y CAGR vs benchmark
17.1% / 16.0%
Dividend yield
1.60%
5y distribution CAGR
5.1%

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