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GOVTISharesINDEX

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF

$22.52+0.33% today
222352-WK

The fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in the component securities of the underlying index and will invest at least 90% of its assets in U.S. Treasury securities that BFA believes will help the fund track the underlying index. The underlying index includes publicly-issued U.S. Treasury securities that have a remaining maturity greater than one year and less than or equal to thirty years and have $300 million or more of outstanding face value.

Price & daily flows
23.222.922.622.52DAILY NET FLOWFeb 17Apr 17Jun 17Aug 19

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 6M SHOWN · NET +$9.2B OVER THIS RANGE

The desk’s read

Money keeps arriving — +$262M of net buying over the past month, about 0.6% of the fund's asset base, while the price has returned -2.1% so far this year. At 0.050% a year it is not the cheapest way in — STIP runs the same ground at 0.03%.

COMPOSED FROM THE FUND’S OWN DAILY RECORDS · UPDATED WITH EACH REFRESH

$43.8Bassets under management
0.050%expense ratio · $5 per $10,000 a year
+$262Mnet flow, trailing month
7.1Mavg daily volume, 30 days
200holdings · US-domiciled
2012listed February 13, 2012 · beta 0.07
The book at a glance
5.3%3.0%2.6%2.1%1.6%1.6%1.5%1.5%1.4%1.4%1.4%1.1%1.0%1.0%1.0%1.0%0.9%0.9%0.9%0.9%0.9%0.9%0.9%0.9%0.8%0.8%0.8%0.8%0.8%0.8%0.8%0.8%0.8%0.8%0.8%0.7%0.7%0.7%0.7%0.6%

CELL SIZE IS PORTFOLIO WEIGHT · COLOR IS TODAY’S MOVE · TOP 40 POSITIONS

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1TREASURY NOTE5.30%
2TREASURY NOTE2.95%
3TREASURY NOTE2.62%
4TREASURY NOTE2.10%
5TREASURY NOTE1.62%
6TREASURY BOND1.57%
7TREASURY BOND1.54%
8TREASURY BOND1.52%
9TREASURY BOND1.42%
10TREASURY BOND1.42%
11TREASURY NOTE1.36%
12TREASURY NOTE1.08%
13TREASURY NOTE1.02%
14TREASURY NOTE1.00%
15TREASURY NOTE0.98%

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Sector weights
Treasuries99.83%
Cash and/or Derivatives0.14%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week+0.3%
1 month-0.5%
3 months-0.2%
6 months-3.1%
YTD-2.1%
1 year
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week+$49M
1 month+$262M
3 months+$3.2B
YTD+$11.4B
1 year+$17B

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

Monthly net flows
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJulAug
DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS, TRAILING TWELVE MONTHS
The risk read
4%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
4%realized volatility, 1 year
-4.1%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-3.6%where it sits vs. that peak today

The top holding is 5.3% of the book; the top ten carry 22%. Spread across 209+ names, it behaves like roughly 94 equally-weighted positions.

VOLATILITY & DRAWDOWN FROM THE DAILY TAPE · CONCENTRATION FROM THE LATEST DISCLOSED BOOK

Options tape
1calls today
1puts today
1.00put/call ratio
17.9Mshares traded
The case against GOVT

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat GOVT on at least one dimension that matters — the fee, the asset base, or where the money is going.

FundFeeAssetsFlow, 1MThe case
STIP iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF0.03%$16B+$288M-2bp on fee · +$288M in over the monthHead-to-head
MBB iShares MBS ETF0.04%$39B+$26M-1bp on fee · +$26M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGSB iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$23.4B+$520M-1bp on fee · +$520M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGIB iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$18.7B+$312M-1bp on fee · +$312M in over the monthHead-to-head
MUB iShares National Muni Bond ETF0.05%$45.8B+$585M+$585M in over the monthHead-to-head
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