ETF comparison
PZA vs VTIP
US Municipal Bond vs TIPS.
Invesco National AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PZA 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 25 bps cheaper than PZA. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for PZA.
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 PZA vs VTIP.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in PZA
6,664 total- California (State of) Health Facilities Financing Authority (Kaiser Permanente) 0.13%
- New York (State of) Dormitory Authority 0.12%
- New York (State of) Dormitory Authority 0.11%
- Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement & Power District 0.10%
- Texas Water Development Board 0.10%
- Regents of the University of California Medical Center 0.10%
- Regents of the University of California Medical Center 0.10%
- Orange (County of), FL Health Facilities Authority (Orlando Health Obligated Group) 0.10%
- Texas Transportation Finance Corp. 0.09%
- Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority 0.09%
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 PZA
- PZA vs VTEB · Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 27.5%
- PZA vs SCMB · Schwab Municipal Bond ETF 24.8%
- PZA vs MUB · iShares National Muni Bond ETF 19.1%
- PZA vs CMF · iShares California Muni Bond ETF 5.7%
- PZA vs NYF · iShares New York Muni Bond ETF 5.1%
- PZA vs JMUB · JPMorgan Municipal ETF 3.5%
More comparisons with VTIP
- VTIP vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SCHO · Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SCHR · Schwab Intermediate-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SCMB · Schwab Municipal Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SCYB · Schwab High Yield 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.