ETF comparison
AGG vs BAB
US Aggregate Bond vs US Municipal Bond.
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF · Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
198 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AGG and BAB would leave roughly 0.4% 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
AGG is 25 bps cheaper than BAB. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for BAB.
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 AGG vs BAB.
Top shared holdings
198 shared in total| # | Holding | In AGG | In BAB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State of Illinois | 0.02% | 1.47% | 0.02% |
| 2 | State of California | 0.01% | 1.24% | 0.01% |
| 3 | State of California | 0.01% | 0.80% | 0.01% |
| 4 | State of California | 0.01% | 0.83% | 0.01% |
| 5 | New Jersey Turnpike Authority | 0.01% | 0.55% | 0.01% |
| 6 | State of California | 0.01% | 0.49% | 0.01% |
| 7 | American Municipal Power Inc | 0.01% | 0.46% | 0.01% |
| 8 | New Jersey Turnpike Authority | 0.01% | 0.65% | 0.01% |
| 9 | Texas Natural Gas Securitization Finance Corp | 0.01% | 0.15% | 0.01% |
| 10 | Texas Natural Gas Securitization Finance Corp | 0.00% | 0.63% | 0.00% |
| 11 | State of California | 0.00% | 0.65% | 0.00% |
| 12 | State of California | 0.00% | 0.01% | 0.00% |
Only in AGG
13,068 total- United States Treasury 0.42%
- United States Treasury 0.41%
- United States Treasury 0.41%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.38%
Only in BAB
1,669 total- Illinois (State of) 0.85%
- Board of Regents of the University of Texas System 0.68%
- Metro 0.65%
- California (State of) 0.60%
- New York (City of), NY 0.54%
- Chicago (City of), IL 0.43%
- Oxnard School District 0.41%
- New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured Revenue 0.40%
- Metropolitan Transportation Authority 0.38%
- Sales Tax Securitization Corp. 0.37%
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- BAB vs MUNI · PIMCO Intermediate Municipal Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.0%
- BAB vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- BAB vs CGMU · Capital Group Municipal Income ETF 0.0%
- BAB vs CMF · iShares California Muni Bond ETF 0.0%
- BAB vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
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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