ETF comparison
SHY vs SUB
US Treasury (Short) vs US Municipal Bond.
iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF · iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHY and SUB would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SUB is 8 bps cheaper than SHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $80/yr more in fees for SHY.
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 SHY vs SUB.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in SHY
90 total- United States of America 1.97%
- United States of America 1.71%
- United States of America 1.61%
- United States of America 1.51%
- United States of America 1.49%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.47%
- United States of America 1.40%
- United States of America 1.39%
- United States of America 1.39%
Only in SUB
2,976 total- New Jersey Economic Development Authority 0.35%
- New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured 0.33%
- State of California 0.28%
- New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority 0.27%
- State of California 0.26%
- Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority 0.25%
- Empire State Development Corp. 0.24%
- University of California 0.24%
- New Jersey Turnpike Authority 0.24%
- State of California 0.23%
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- SHY vs TIPX · State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-10 Year TIPS ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs TLH · iShares 10-20 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with SUB
- SUB vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
- SUB vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- SUB vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SUB vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SUB vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SUB vs SHM · State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE Short Term Municipal Bond ETF 10.5%
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.