ETF comparison
BAB vs SCHZ
US Municipal Bond vs US Aggregate Bond.
Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
195 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BAB and SCHZ 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
SCHZ 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 BAB vs SCHZ.
Top shared holdings
195 shared in total| # | Holding | In BAB | In SCHZ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Illinois (State of) | 1.47% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 2 | California (State of) | 1.24% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 3 | California (State of) | 0.80% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 4 | California (State of) | 0.65% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 5 | New York & New Jersey (States of) Port Authority | 0.09% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 6 | Texas Natural Gas Securitization Finance Corp. | 0.63% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 7 | New Jersey (State of) Turnpike Authority | 0.65% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 8 | California (State of) | 0.83% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 9 | California (State of) | 0.83% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 10 | New Jersey (State of) Turnpike Authority | 0.55% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 11 | Texas (State of) | 0.23% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 12 | New York & New Jersey (States of) Port Authority | 0.47% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in BAB
1,672 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%
- Massachusetts (Commonwealth of) 0.58%
- 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%
Only in SCHZ
12,131 total- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
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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/.
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