ETF comparison
CGMU vs ITM
Both US Municipal Bond.
Capital Group Municipal Income ETF · VanEck Intermediate Muni ETF
Holdings overlap
97 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGMU and ITM would leave roughly 5.3% 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
ITM is 9 bps cheaper than CGMU. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/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 CGMU vs ITM.
Top shared holdings
97 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGMU | In ITM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York Energy Finance Development Corp | 0.22% | 0.24% | 0.22% |
| 2 | PEFA Inc | 0.25% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 3 | Black Belt Energy Gas District | 0.17% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 4 | California Community Choice Financing Authority | 0.26% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 5 | Black Belt Energy Gas District | 0.12% | 0.24% | 0.12% |
| 6 | California Community Choice Financing Authority | 0.11% | 0.50% | 0.11% |
| 7 | Southeast Energy Authority A Cooperative District | 0.10% | 0.22% | 0.10% |
| 8 | Los Angeles Department of Water & Power | 0.13% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 9 | Colorado Health Facilities Authority | 0.14% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 10 | California Community Choice Financing Authority | 0.45% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | Central Valley Energy Authority | 0.10% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 12 | Southeast Energy Authority A Cooperative District | 0.28% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in CGMU
2,238 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%
- County of Montgomery MD 0.44%
- New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority 0.44%
- Maryland Health & Higher Educational Facilities Authority 0.40%
- Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority 0.36%
- Main Street Natural Gas Inc 0.34%
Only in ITM
1,272 total- New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority 0.53%
- State of California 0.45%
- Connecticut State Health & Educational Facilities Authority 0.39%
- California Community Choice Financing Authority 0.37%
- State of California 0.30%
- New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority 0.28%
- Salem-Keizer School District No 24J 0.26%
- South Carolina Jobs-Economic Development Authority 0.26%
- Massachusetts Development Finance Agency 0.26%
- Commonwealth Financing Authority 0.26%
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- CGMU vs SCMB · Schwab Municipal Bond ETF 2.6%
- CGMU vs MUB · iShares National Muni Bond ETF 2.5%
- CGMU vs SHM · State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE Short Term Municipal Bond ETF 2.1%
- CGMU vs SUB · iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond ETF 1.6%
- CGMU vs PZA · Invesco National AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF 1.4%
More comparisons with ITM
- ITM vs HYD · VanEck High Yield Muni ETF 4.8%
- ITM vs JMUB · JPMorgan Municipal ETF 4.5%
- ITM vs MUNI · PIMCO Intermediate Municipal Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 4.5%
- ITM vs VTEB · Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 4.3%
- ITM vs SCMB · Schwab Municipal Bond ETF 3.8%
- ITM vs MUB · iShares National Muni Bond ETF 3.7%
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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