ETF comparison
SCMB vs VTIP
US Municipal Bond vs TIPS.
Schwab 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 SCMB 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
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
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 SCMB vs VTIP.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in SCMB
6,845 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%
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 SCMB
- SCMB vs VTEB · Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 29.2%
- SCMB vs PZA · Invesco National AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF 24.8%
- SCMB vs MUB · iShares National Muni Bond ETF 21.8%
- SCMB vs CMF · iShares California Muni Bond ETF 6.9%
- SCMB vs NYF · iShares New York Muni Bond ETF 5.9%
- SCMB vs SUB · iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond ETF 5.8%
More comparisons with VTIP
- VTIP vs SCYB · Schwab High Yield Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SGOV · iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SHM · State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE Short Term Municipal Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SHV · iShares 0–1 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SHYG · iShares 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate 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.