ETF comparison
HYD vs VGLT
US Municipal Bond vs US Treasury (Long).
VanEck High Yield Muni ETF · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HYD and VGLT 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
VGLT is 29 bps cheaper than HYD. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/yr more in fees for HYD.
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 HYD vs VGLT.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in HYD
2,103 total- Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp Sales Tax Revenue 0.98%
- Chicago Board of Education 0.79%
- Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp 0.71%
- Buckeye Tobacco Settlement Financing Authority 0.69%
- New York Transportation Development Corp 0.61%
- Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp Sales Tax Revenue 0.58%
- Chicago Board of Education 0.53%
- Florida Development Finance Corp 0.52%
- New York Transportation Development Corp 0.48%
- Arkansas Development Finance Authority 0.45%
Only in VGLT
97 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.22%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.21%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.21%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.17%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.17%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.17%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.14%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.13%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
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- HYD vs CGMU · Capital Group Municipal Income ETF 8.0%
- HYD vs JMUB · JPMorgan Municipal ETF 7.7%
- HYD vs ITM · VanEck Intermediate Muni ETF 4.8%
- HYD vs MUNI · PIMCO Intermediate Municipal Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 3.5%
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- VGLT vs HYG · iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGLT vs HYLB · Xtrackers USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGLT vs IAGG · iShares Core International Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGLT vs ICSH · iShares Ultra Short Duration Bond Active ETF 0.0%
- VGLT vs ICVT · iShares Convertible Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGLT vs IEF · iShares 7-10 Year Treasury 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/.
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