ETF comparison
BAB vs VGSH
US Municipal Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BAB and VGSH 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
VGSH 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 VGSH.
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 VGSH
91 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.24%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.40%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.35%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.31%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.30%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.29%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
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- BAB vs MUNI · PIMCO Intermediate Municipal Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.0%
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- VGSH vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 0.0%
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- VGSH vs BKLN · Invesco Senior Loan ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGSH vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
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.