ETF comparison
BAB vs MUNI
Both US Municipal Bond.
Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF · PIMCO Intermediate Municipal Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BAB and MUNI 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
BAB is 7 bps cheaper than MUNI. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for MUNI.
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 MUNI.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In BAB | In MUNI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Golden State Tobacco Securitization Corp. | 0.01% | 0.18% | 0.01% |
| 2 | Golden State Tobacco Securitization Corp. | 0.01% | 0.06% | 0.01% |
Only in BAB
1,865 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 MUNI
644 total- United States Treasury 2.20%
- United States Treasury 1.78%
- United States Treasury 1.16%
- United States Treasury 0.86%
- Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp Sales Tax Revenue 0.81%
- Connecticut State Health & Educational Facilities Authority 0.81%
- Black Belt Energy Gas District 0.81%
- Texas Municipal Gas Acquisition & Supply Corp V 0.80%
- Fort Bend Independent School District 0.79%
- FHLMC Multifamily VRD Certificates 0.71%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open BAB or MUNI at a brokerage
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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.