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ETF comparison

CMF vs JMST

Both US Municipal Bond.

iShares California Muni Bond ETF · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Municipal Income ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.1 %

5 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CMF and JMST would leave roughly 0.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

CMF unmatched 99.4% Shared 0.1% JMST unmatched 96.6%

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.

In CMF only
1,617 positions
Shared
5 positions
In JMST only
1,885 positions

Side by side

CMF

iShares California Muni Bond ETF

iShares · US Municipal Bond

92 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.080%
Net assets
$4.75B
TTM yield
3.04%
Top-10 conc.
4.4%
JMST

JPMorgan Ultra-Short Municipal Income ETF

JPMorgan · US Municipal Bond

90 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.18%
Net assets
$7.62B
TTM yield
2.55%
Top-10 conc.
7.7%

Sub-score comparison

92
Cost
82
93
Tax efficiency
93
86
Liquidity
95
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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CMF sub-score JMST

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

CMF is 10 bps cheaper than JMST. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for JMST.

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 CMF vs JMST.

Top shared holdings

5 shared in total
# Holding In CMF In JMST Overlap
1 Southern California Public Power Authority 0.02% 0.04% 0.02%
2 Metropolitan Water District of Southern California 0.02% 0.02% 0.02%
3 Los Angeles Department of Water & Power 0.08% 0.01% 0.01%
4 California Infrastructure & Economic Development Bank 0.02% 0.00% 0.00%
5 Campbell Union High School District 0.05% 0.00% 0.00%

Only in CMF

1,617 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%

Only in JMST

1,885 total
  • New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority 1.02%
  • State of Washington 0.90%
  • Alaska Housing Finance Corp. 0.86%
  • State of Minnesota 0.78%
  • Township of Woodbridge NJ 0.71%
  • Maryland Health & Higher Educational Facilities Authority 0.71%
  • Bergen County Improvement Authority (The) 0.68%
  • Tarrant County Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp. 0.67%
  • District of Columbia 0.67%
  • County of Hamilton OH Sales Tax Revenue 0.66%

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.