ETF comparison
BND vs CMF
US Aggregate Bond vs US Municipal Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares California Muni Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and CMF 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
BND is 5 bps cheaper than CMF. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for CMF.
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 BND vs CMF.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in BND
17,396 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.47%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.40%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
Only in CMF
1,622 total- Los Angeles Unified School District 0.50%
- University of California 0.49%
- Bay Area Toll Authority 0.46%
- California Educational Facilities Authority 0.44%
- Los Angeles Unified School District 0.44%
- Eastern Municipal Water District 0.44%
- California State University 0.42%
- University of California 0.42%
- State of California 0.38%
- Bay Area Toll Authority 0.37%
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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/.
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