ETF comparison
BNDX vs CGMU
International Bond vs US Municipal Bond.
Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Capital Group Municipal Income ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BNDX and CGMU 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
BNDX is 20 bps cheaper than CGMU. On a $100,000 position that's about $200/yr more in fees for CGMU.
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 BNDX vs CGMU.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in BNDX
6,818 total- United Kingdom Gilt 0.41%
- French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.37%
- French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.36%
- United Kingdom Gilt 0.36%
- United Kingdom Gilt 0.35%
- United Kingdom Gilt 0.34%
- French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.33%
- French Republic Government Bond OAT 0.33%
- Bundesrepublik Deutschland Bundesanleihe 0.30%
- United Kingdom Gilt 0.30%
Only in CGMU
2,335 total- Commonwealth of Puerto Rico 0.82%
- Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp Sales Tax Revenue 0.69%
- Black Belt Energy Gas District 0.53%
- City of New York NY 0.51%
- New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority 0.47%
- California Community Choice Financing Authority 0.45%
- County of Montgomery MD 0.44%
- New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority 0.44%
- Maryland Health & Higher Educational Facilities Authority 0.40%
- Black Belt Energy Gas District 0.38%
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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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