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
176 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AGG and BAB would leave roughly 0.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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
176 shared in total| # | Holding | In AGG | In BAB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State of Illinois | 0.02% | 0.91% | 0.02% |
| 2 | State of California | 0.01% | 1.25% | 0.01% |
| 3 | State of California | 0.01% | 0.82% | 0.01% |
| 4 | State of California | 0.01% | 0.87% | 0.01% |
| 5 | New Jersey Turnpike Authority | 0.01% | 0.58% | 0.01% |
| 6 | State of California | 0.01% | 0.51% | 0.01% |
| 7 | American Municipal Power Inc | 0.01% | 0.47% | 0.01% |
| 8 | New Jersey Turnpike Authority | 0.01% | 0.48% | 0.01% |
| 9 | Texas Natural Gas Securitization Finance Corp | 0.01% | 0.16% | 0.01% |
| 10 | Texas Natural Gas Securitization Finance Corp | 0.00% | 0.64% | 0.00% |
| 11 | State of California | 0.00% | 0.68% | 0.00% |
| 12 | Los Angeles Department of Water & Power | 0.00% | 0.30% | 0.00% |
Only in AGG
13,007 total- BlackRock Funds III 0.52%
- United States Treasury 0.46%
- United States Treasury 0.43%
- United States Treasury 0.42%
- United States Treasury 0.42%
- United States Treasury 0.42%
- United States Treasury 0.41%
- United States Treasury 0.41%
- United States Treasury 0.41%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
Only in BAB
1,304 total- Invesco Government & Agency Portfolio 1.49%
- Illinois (State of) 0.97%
- California (State of) 0.79%
- Board of Regents of the University of Texas System 0.77%
- Metro 0.74%
- New York (City of), NY 0.64%
- Sales Tax Securitization Corp. 0.46%
- Chicago (City of), IL 0.44%
- Oxnard School District 0.43%
- Hawaii (State of) 0.41%
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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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