MUB Bonds — Munis ETF (MUB)

MUB Bonds — Munis ETF — analysis

In the bonds — munis group, MUB Bonds — Munis ETF (MUB) has gathered $201.8B. The cost line is 58 bps per year, the benchmark is Bloomberg US Agg Bond Index, and the fund has traded since 1998.

On the ValueMarkers VMCI-Composite read, MUB scores 55/100. The score is the weighted average of the underlying VMCI ratings across the top 10 holdings, which together represent roughly 30% of the fund. That places MUB in mid-table composite quality territory inside the Bonds — Munis cohort.

MUB compounded at 15.5% per year over the trailing five years, which compares to 14.0% on the benchmark. The 1.5-pp gap captures expense drag plus any active deviation in the strategy.

Trailing yield on MUB is 1.00%, with distributions growing at 5.5% annualized over five years. That combination is the simplest read on whether the fund is structured for current income or distribution growth.

MUB weight stack: top 10 names equal 30%, sector tilt Technology 31%, single-name concentration peaks at AAPL (3.56%). Those three numbers describe the fund's risk shape on a single screen.

Peer ETFs covering the same mandate as MUB: SPY, VOO, VTI. The practical comparison runs on issuer reliability, expense ratio, holdings concentration, and tax efficiency, all of which ValueMarkers surfaces on the individual ETF pages.