ETF comparison
BAB vs BND
US Municipal Bond vs US Aggregate Bond.
Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund
Holdings overlap
188 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BAB and BND would leave roughly 0.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
BND is 25 bps cheaper than BAB. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for BAB.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with BAB vs BND.
Top shared holdings
188 shared in total| # | Holding | In BAB | In BND | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Illinois (State of) | 0.91% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 2 | California (State of) | 1.25% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 3 | California (State of) | 0.82% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 4 | New York (City of), NY (Social Bonds) | 0.10% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 5 | University of Virginia | 0.12% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 6 | New Jersey (State of) Turnpike Authority | 0.48% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 7 | New York & New Jersey (States of) Port Authority | 0.08% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 8 | Texas Natural Gas Securitization Finance Corp. | 0.64% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 9 | New Jersey (State of) Turnpike Authority | 0.58% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 10 | Metropolitan Transportation Authority | 0.24% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 11 | Texas Natural Gas Securitization Finance Corp. | 0.16% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 12 | California (State of) | 0.94% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in BAB
1,292 total- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 1.49%
- Illinois (State of) 0.97%
- California (State of) 0.79%
- Board of Regents of the University of Texas System 0.77%
- Metro 0.74%
- Massachusetts (Commonwealth of) 0.69%
- New York (City of), NY 0.64%
- Sales Tax Securitization Corp. 0.46%
- Oklahoma (State of) Development Finance Authority (Public Service Co. of Oklahama) 0.46%
- Chicago (City of), IL 0.44%
Only in BND
17,172 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.48%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.42%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.42%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.42%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.40%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.36%
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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