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BND vs JMST

US Aggregate Bond vs US Municipal Bond.

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Municipal Income ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and JMST would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BND unmatched 99.0% Shared 0.0% JMST unmatched 91.2%

Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.

In BND only
17,396 positions
Shared
0 positions
In JMST only
1,541 positions

Side by side

BND

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Aggregate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$400.61B
whole fund, 6 share classes
TTM yield
3.79%
Top-10 conc.
4.1%
JMST

JPMorgan Ultra-Short Municipal Income ETF

JPMorgan · US Municipal Bond

91 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.18%
Net assets
$8.35B
TTM yield
2.34%
Top-10 conc.
7.1%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
82
53
Tax efficiency
93
100
Liquidity
97
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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BND sub-score JMST

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

BND is 15 bps cheaper than JMST. On a $100,000 position that's about $150/yr more in fees for JMST.

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 BND vs JMST.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in BND

17,396 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.47%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • 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%

Only in JMST

1,541 total
  • United States of America 0.98%
  • New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority 0.88%
  • State of Washington 0.77%
  • Alaska Housing Finance Corp. 0.73%
  • State of Minnesota 0.67%
  • Hempstead Union Free School District 0.65%
  • New Hartford Central School District 0.62%
  • Town of New Windsor NY 0.62%
  • Maryland Health & Higher Educational Facilities Authority 0.61%
  • Township of Woodbridge NJ 0.61%

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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.

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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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.