ETF comparison
BAB vs GOVT
US Municipal Bond vs US Treasury (Intermediate).
Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BAB and GOVT 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
GOVT is 23 bps cheaper than BAB. On a $100,000 position that's about $230/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 GOVT.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo 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 GOVT
214 total- United States of America 5.28%
- United States of America 2.95%
- United States of America 2.63%
- United States of America 2.08%
- United States of America 1.62%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.38%
- United States of America 1.37%
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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.