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iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (GOVT) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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The desk on GOVT

What this diary said about iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF, what it holds and what would change its view — in its own words, dated. Investment diary, not advice.

What we said

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for GOVT, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 9 pieces · newest: Daily Pulse, “Inflation week: the market prices a 60% Fed hike, our structural monitor reads 49 and flat — the pressure is oil, not wages, and bonds have already paid for it” (2026-09-08)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where GOVT appears in the diary — 9 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.36 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How GOVT has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.36 — tends to move with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF moved 0.36% on average · correlation 0.93 · higher than 35% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.35 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.49% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.32% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.76%, monthly · last 0.0761 USD on 2026-09-01

Dividends and capital return

What GOVT pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.83 USD per share · a 3.76% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 12 distributions, paid monthly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +5.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.79 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.0761 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-01
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.22 USD (partial) · 2024: 0.72 USD · 2025: 0.80 USD · 2026: 0.56 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-10-02

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

About iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (GOVT) is an exchange-traded fund that trades on US exchanges. Closelooknet tracks it as a benchmark: the dailies and the sector dispersion board quote it as a market reference, and the holdings card above matches its largest positions against the names with a Closelooknet page. It is a constituent of Closelooknet benchmark ETF set.

closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (GOVT)?

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF is an exchange-traded fund trading as GOVT on the US exchange (US) and is one of the benchmark ETFs Closelooknet tracks as a market reference, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

How does Closelooknet use GOVT?

As a benchmark: the daily editions, the sector dispersion board and the index dashboards quote iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF as a market reference, and this page matches the fund's largest holdings against the names Closelooknet covers so a reader can move from the fund to the companies inside it.

Where does GOVT trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -1.7% vs the 50-day and -2.4% vs the 200-day average, 4.3% below the 52-week high and +0.3% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 73 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF had a beta of 0.36 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it tends to move with bonds, higher than 35% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.49% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF?

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF appears in 9 Closelooknet pieces, most recently Daily Pulse: Inflation week: the market prices a 60% Fed hike, our structural monitor reads 49 and flat — the pressure is oil, not wages, and bonds have already paid for it (2026-09-08); Morning 10: Bitcoin's overnight break of 80,000 fades back under Monday's own close, while SOXX's bounce holds through the session and IEF clears the bond veto's third test at 93.51. (2026-08-26); Daily Pulse: The Long Bond Argues Back (2026-08-26). What Closelooknet said most recently: The whole-curve fund GOVT is flat at −0.9, and the international sovereign fund IGOV is flat at −2.8. (Daily Pulse, 2026-09-08). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

Does iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF pay a dividend?

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF has paid 0.83 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid monthly, a trailing yield of 3.76% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.0761 USD on 2026-09-01. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for GOVT, fund basics and the top holdings by weight with the Closelooknet names among them marked, the technical state where the data exists, and the research diary mentions — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.