ETF comparison
SHM vs VTEB
Both US Municipal Bond.
State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE Short Term Municipal Bond ETF · Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
172 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHM and VTEB would leave roughly 2.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VTEB is 17 bps cheaper than SHM. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for SHM.
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 SHM vs VTEB.
Top shared holdings
172 shared in total| # | Holding | In SHM | In VTEB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Angeles Department of Water & Power | 0.16% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 2 | New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority | 0.11% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 3 | State of New Jersey | 0.10% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 4 | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania | 0.24% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 5 | University of California | 0.16% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 6 | State of Illinois | 0.06% | 0.08% | 0.06% |
| 7 | New Jersey Turnpike Authority | 0.15% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 8 | Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority | 0.33% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 9 | Arizona Industrial Development Authority | 0.05% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 10 | New Jersey Economic Development Authority | 0.16% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 11 | State of Connecticut Special Tax Revenue | 0.09% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 12 | Connecticut State Health & Educational Facilities Authority | 0.26% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
Only in SHM
816 total- Southeast Energy Authority A Cooperative District 0.93%
- City of New York NY 0.91%
- State of California 0.70%
- New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured Revenue 0.52%
- State of California 0.49%
- State of California 0.46%
- University of California 0.41%
- City of New York NY 0.40%
- State of Florida Department of Transportation Turnpike System Revenue 0.37%
- State of Maryland Department of Transportation 0.36%
Only in VTEB
10,013 total- University of California 0.12%
- Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority 0.11%
- Colorado State Education Loan Program 0.11%
- State of California 0.11%
- New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured Revenue 0.09%
- Dallas Independent School District 0.09%
- Ohio Water Development Authority Water Pollution Control Loan Fund 0.08%
- New York State Dormitory Authority 0.08%
- New York State Dormitory Authority 0.08%
- Ohio State University/The 0.08%
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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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