ETF comparison
NYF vs VTEB
Both US Municipal Bond.
iShares New York Muni Bond ETF · Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
413 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of NYF and VTEB would leave roughly 5.0% 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
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Cost difference
VTEB 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 VTEB.
Top shared holdings
413 shared in total| # | Holding | In NYF | In VTEB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York State Dormitory Authority | 0.43% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 2 | New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured | 0.07% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 3 | Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority Sales Tax | 0.28% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 4 | New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured | 0.12% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 5 | New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured | 0.12% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 6 | Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority | 0.43% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 7 | New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority | 0.31% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 8 | New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority | 0.09% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 9 | Metropolitan Transportation Authority | 0.09% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 10 | New York State Dormitory Authority | 0.17% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 11 | New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured | 0.17% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 12 | Long Island Power Authority | 0.07% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
Only in NYF
471 total- Battery Park City Authority 0.80%
- New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secured 0.73%
- Long Island Power Authority 0.58%
- New York State Dormitory Authority 0.51%
- New York State Dormitory Authority 0.47%
- Utility Debt Securitization Authority 0.45%
- New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority 0.41%
- Monroe County Industrial Development Corp. 0.40%
- Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority 0.39%
- New York State Dormitory Authority 0.38%
Only in VTEB
10,178 total- City of New York NY 0.12%
- University of California 0.11%
- State of Idaho 0.10%
- State of California 0.10%
- State of Maryland 0.09%
- New York State Thruway Authority 0.09%
- Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority 0.09%
- Dallas Independent School District 0.08%
- Ohio Water Development Authority Water Pollution Control Loan Fund 0.08%
- Energy Northwest 0.08%
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- NYF vs JMUB · JPMorgan Municipal ETF 1.6%
- NYF vs ITM · VanEck Intermediate Muni ETF 1.5%
- NYF vs MUNI · PIMCO Intermediate Municipal Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 1.1%
- NYF vs CGMU · Capital Group Municipal Income ETF 1.1%
- NYF vs SHM · State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE Short Term Municipal Bond ETF 0.5%
More comparisons with VTEB
- VTEB vs ITM · VanEck Intermediate Muni ETF 4.3%
- VTEB vs CGMU · Capital Group Municipal Income ETF 3.4%
- VTEB vs JMUB · JPMorgan Municipal ETF 3.2%
- VTEB vs SHM · State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE Short Term Municipal Bond ETF 2.4%
- VTEB vs HYD · VanEck High Yield Muni ETF 1.7%
- VTEB vs JMST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Municipal Income ETF 1.5%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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/methodology/.
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