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BNDX vs JMST

International Bond vs US Municipal Bond.

Vanguard Total International Bond 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 BNDX and JMST would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BNDX unmatched 98.0% 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 BNDX only
6,818 positions
Shared
0 positions
In JMST only
1,541 positions

Side by side

BNDX

Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Bond

88 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$124.20B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
4.40%
Top-10 conc.
3.5%
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

93
Cost
82
52
Tax efficiency
93
100
Liquidity
97
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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BNDX sub-score JMST

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

Cost difference

BNDX is 11 bps cheaper than JMST. On a $100,000 position that's about $110/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 BNDX vs JMST.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in BNDX

6,818 total
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.41%
  • French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.37%
  • French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.36%
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.36%
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.35%
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.34%
  • French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.33%
  • French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.33%
  • Bundesrepublik Deutschland Bundesanleihe 0.30%
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.30%

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/.

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