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GOVT ISHARES US TREASURY BOND ETF

2026Q2 · CUSIP 46429B267 · Sector: Other

Piling in

Net holder growth ranks near the top of the market

Funds that own it
963
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net increase in holders
+27
Last quarter 936 → now 963
How unusual is that
Top 20%
Stronger buying than 83% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

963 funds held GOVT at the end of 2026Q2, up 27 from the quarter before. That is stronger buying than 83.0% of US stocks — among the most piled-into names this quarter. GOVT has had 25 buying rushes in its history. It sits in the Other sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q3: holders=10 2013Q4: holders=11 2014Q1: holders=15 2014Q2: holders=18 2014Q3: holders=21 2014Q4: holders=33 2015Q1: holders=36 2015Q2: holders=42 2015Q3: holders=51 2015Q4: holders=59 2016Q1: holders=72 2016Q2: holders=87 2016Q3: holders=91 2016Q4: holders=96 2017Q1: holders=94 2017Q2: holders=108 2017Q3: holders=113 2017Q4: holders=141 2018Q1: holders=165 2018Q2: holders=167 2018Q3: holders=180 2018Q4: holders=213 2019Q1: holders=243 2019Q2: holders=275 2019Q3: holders=313 2019Q4: holders=376 2020Q1: holders=405 2020Q2: holders=430 2020Q3: holders=444 2020Q4: holders=506 2021Q1: holders=518 2021Q2: holders=517 2021Q3: holders=517 2021Q4: holders=594 2022Q1: holders=583 2022Q2: holders=578 2022Q3: holders=577 2022Q4: holders=627 2023Q1: holders=633 2023Q2: holders=657 2023Q3: holders=656 2023Q4: holders=712 2024Q1: holders=695 2024Q2: holders=698 2024Q3: holders=720 2024Q4: holders=788 2025Q1: holders=791 2025Q2: holders=773 2025Q3: holders=793 2025Q4: holders=836 2026Q1: holders=936 2026Q2: holders=963 -100 -50 +0 +50 +100 95111012 13Q315Q116Q318Q119Q321Q122Q324Q125Q326Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 25 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q2 Top 20% — —
2026Q1 Top 5% — —
2025Q4 Top 20% — —
2025Q3 Top 20% — —
2024Q4 Top 10% — —
2024Q3 Top 20% — —
2023Q4 Top 10% — —
2023Q2 Top 10% — —

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
133
Change in large funds
+11
Total value they hold
$42.7B
Funds buying for the first time
110
Funds that sold out entirely
83
Price change that quarter
—
Funds holding puts (bearish)
1
Funds holding calls (bullish)
1

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

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2026 Q3 holdings are due 2026-11-16. We will email you when the refreshed lists are live.