ETF comparison
CGMU vs HYD
Both US Municipal Bond.
Capital Group Municipal Income ETF · VanEck High Yield Muni ETF
Holdings overlap
184 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGMU and HYD would leave roughly 6.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
CGMU is 5 bps cheaper than HYD. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for HYD.
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 CGMU vs HYD.
Top shared holdings
184 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGMU | In HYD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp Sales Tax Revenue | 0.57% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 2 | California Community Choice Financing Authority | 0.19% | 0.23% | 0.19% |
| 3 | Florida Development Finance Corp | 0.17% | 0.54% | 0.17% |
| 4 | Commonwealth of Puerto Rico | 0.16% | 0.21% | 0.16% |
| 5 | Kentucky Public Energy Authority | 0.15% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 6 | Mission Economic Development Corp | 0.14% | 0.35% | 0.14% |
| 7 | Berks County Municipal Authority/The | 0.12% | 0.23% | 0.12% |
| 8 | New York Energy Finance Development Corp | 0.29% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 9 | Southeast Energy Authority A Cooperative District | 0.33% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 10 | City of Houston TX Airport System Revenue | 0.21% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | Baldwin County Industrial Development Authority | 0.10% | 0.28% | 0.10% |
| 12 | City of Houston TX Airport System Revenue | 0.10% | 0.49% | 0.10% |
Only in CGMU
1,942 total- Commonwealth of Puerto Rico 0.67%
- Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority 0.58%
- University of California 0.56%
- New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority 0.54%
- County of Montgomery MD 0.53%
- Harris County Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp 0.51%
- Connecticut State Health & Educational Facilities Authority 0.50%
- Mississippi Business Finance Corp 0.49%
- Industrial Development Authority of the City of Phoenix Arizona/The 0.41%
- Connecticut State Health & Educational Facilities Authority 0.40%
Only in HYD
1,727 total- Buckeye Tobacco Settlement Financing Authority 0.87%
- Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp 0.71%
- New York Transportation Development Corp 0.66%
- Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp Sales Tax Revenue 0.63%
- Chicago Board of Education 0.57%
- New York Transportation Development Corp 0.51%
- Arkansas Development Finance Authority 0.48%
- Florida Development Finance Corp 0.47%
- Chicago Board of Education 0.44%
- Public Finance Authority 0.44%
Open CGMU or HYD at a brokerage
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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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