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BAB vs BNDX

US Municipal Bond vs International Bond.

Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BAB and BNDX would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BAB unmatched 99.0% Shared 0.0% BNDX unmatched 98.0%

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.

In BAB only
1,867 positions
Shared
0 positions
In BNDX only
6,818 positions

Side by side

BAB

Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF

Invesco · US Municipal Bond

76 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.28%
Net assets
$834.6M
TTM yield
4.45%
Top-10 conc.
8.7%
BNDX

Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · International Bond

87 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$121.63B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
4.65%
Top-10 conc.
3.5%

Sub-score comparison

72
Cost
93
93
Tax efficiency
51
53
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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BAB sub-score BNDX

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

BNDX is 21 bps cheaper than BAB. On a $100,000 position that's about $210/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 BAB vs BNDX.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in BAB

1,867 total
  • Illinois (State of) 1.47%
  • California (State of) 1.24%
  • Illinois (State of) 0.85%
  • California (State of) 0.83%
  • California (State of) 0.83%
  • California (State of) 0.80%
  • Board of Regents of the University of Texas System 0.68%
  • California (State of) 0.65%
  • New Jersey (State of) Turnpike Authority 0.65%
  • Metro 0.65%

Only in BNDX

6,818 total
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.41%
  • French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.37%
  • French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.36%
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.36%
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.35%
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.34%
  • French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.33%
  • French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.33%
  • Bundesrepublik Deutschland Bundesanleihe 0.30%
  • United Kingdom Gilt 0.30%

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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.