ETF comparison
NYF vs SCMB
Both US Municipal Bond.
Holdings overlap
293 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of NYF and SCMB would leave roughly 5.9% 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
SCMB is 6 bps cheaper than NYF. On a $100,000 position that's about $60/yr more in fees for NYF.
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 NYF vs SCMB.
Top shared holdings
293 shared in total| # | Holding | In NYF | In SCMB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City of New York | 0.16% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 2 | New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority | 0.16% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 3 | New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority | 0.11% | 0.13% | 0.11% |
| 4 | New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured Revenue | 0.13% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 5 | New York State Dormitory Authority | 0.10% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 6 | Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority | 0.43% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 7 | City of New York | 0.08% | 0.10% | 0.08% |
| 8 | New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured Revenue | 0.23% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 9 | New York State Thruway Authority | 0.21% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | New York State Dormitory Authority | 0.43% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 11 | Empire State Development Corp. | 0.08% | 0.13% | 0.08% |
| 12 | MTA Hudson Rail Yards Trust Obligations | 0.08% | 0.15% | 0.08% |
Only in NYF
591 total- Battery Park City Authority 0.80%
- New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured 0.73%
- New York State Thruway Authority 0.59%
- Long Island Power Authority 0.58%
- New York State Dormitory Authority 0.51%
- New York State Dormitory Authority 0.47%
- New York State Dormitory Authority 0.47%
- Empire State Development Corp. 0.43%
- New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority 0.41%
- Monroe County Industrial Development Corp. 0.40%
Only in SCMB
6,552 total- Commonwealth of Massachusetts 0.22%
- Gwinnett County School District 0.22%
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 0.21%
- City of New York NY 0.20%
- State of California Department of Water Resources 0.19%
- State of Washington 0.17%
- State of California 0.17%
- New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority 0.17%
- Northwest Independent School District 0.16%
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts 0.16%
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- NYF vs SUB · iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond ETF 2.5%
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- SCMB vs SUB · iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond ETF 5.8%
- SCMB vs ITM · VanEck Intermediate Muni ETF 3.8%
- SCMB vs JMUB · JPMorgan Municipal ETF 3.2%
- SCMB vs CGMU · Capital Group Municipal Income ETF 2.6%
- SCMB vs SHM · State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE Short Term Municipal Bond ETF 2.1%
- SCMB vs HYD · VanEck High Yield Muni ETF 1.1%
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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