ETF comparison
SHM vs VTIP
US Municipal Bond vs TIPS.
State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE Short Term 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 SHM 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 17 bps cheaper than SHM. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for SHM.
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 SHM vs VTIP.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in SHM
1,043 total- Southeast Energy Authority A Cooperative District 0.92%
- State of California 0.69%
- New York State Dormitory Authority 0.61%
- State of California 0.52%
- State of California 0.49%
- State of California 0.46%
- City of New York NY 0.44%
- University of California 0.41%
- Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority 0.40%
- City of New York NY 0.39%
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 SHM
- SHM vs SUB · iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond ETF 10.2%
- SHM vs HYD · VanEck High Yield Muni ETF 3.0%
- SHM vs JMUB · JPMorgan Municipal ETF 2.9%
- SHM vs VTEB · Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 2.4%
- SHM vs JMST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Municipal Income ETF 2.3%
- SHM vs CGMU · Capital Group Municipal Income ETF 2.1%
More comparisons with VTIP
- 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%
- VTIP vs SJNK · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Short Term High Yield Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SPAB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VTIP vs SPHY · State Street SPDR Portfolio 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.