ETF comparison
CGMU vs VTIP
US Municipal Bond vs TIPS.
Capital Group Municipal Income ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGMU and VTIP 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
VTIP is 24 bps cheaper than CGMU. On a $100,000 position that's about $240/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 VTIP.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
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%
Only in VTIP
25 total- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.39%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.33%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.30%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 5.14%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.97%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.83%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.74%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.70%
- United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds 4.59%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with CGMU
- CGMU vs HYD · VanEck High Yield Muni ETF 8.0%
- CGMU vs JMUB · JPMorgan Municipal ETF 6.2%
- CGMU vs MUNI · PIMCO Intermediate Municipal Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 6.0%
- CGMU vs ITM · VanEck Intermediate Muni ETF 5.3%
- CGMU vs VTEB · Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 3.4%
- CGMU vs SCMB · Schwab Municipal Bond ETF 2.6%
More comparisons with VTIP
- VTIP vs CMF · iShares California Muni Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs CORP · PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 0.0%
- VTIP vs CWB · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs EBND · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF 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.