ETF comparison
BINC vs PULS
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Flexible Income Active ETF · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
17 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BINC and PULS would leave roughly 0.3% 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
PULS is 25 bps cheaper than BINC. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for BINC.
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 BINC vs PULS.
Top shared holdings
17 shared in total| # | Holding | In BINC | In PULS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verus Securitization Trust | 0.07% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 2 | HOMES Trust | 0.08% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 3 | New Residential Mortgage Loan Trust | 0.03% | 0.04% | 0.03% |
| 4 | Whitebox CLO Ltd | 0.03% | 0.13% | 0.03% |
| 5 | OCTAGON INVESTMENT PARTNERS 41, LTD. | 0.03% | 0.17% | 0.03% |
| 6 | COLT Funding LLC | 0.02% | 0.10% | 0.02% |
| 7 | LCM Ltd Partnership | 0.02% | 0.05% | 0.02% |
| 8 | BRAVO Residential Funding Trust | 0.01% | 0.11% | 0.01% |
| 9 | Wellfleet CLO Ltd | 0.01% | 0.32% | 0.01% |
| 10 | BX Trust | 0.01% | 0.07% | 0.01% |
| 11 | Venture CDO Ltd | 0.01% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 12 | Battalion CLO LTD | 0.01% | 0.20% | 0.01% |
Only in BINC
4,024 total- UMBS, TBA 6.83%
- UMBS, TBA 3.48%
- UMBS, TBA 2.35%
- UMBS, TBA 1.57%
- iShares iBoxx USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 1.46%
- Italy Buoni Poliennali Del Tesoro 1.32%
- UMBS, TBA 1.10%
- iShares iBoxx USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 1.06%
- Spain Government Bonds 0.97%
- UMBS, TBA 0.81%
Only in PULS
718 total- PGIM ETF Trust 1.95%
- Suncor Energy Inc. 0.77%
- INTESA SANPAOLO SPA 0.68%
- Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. 0.67%
- Healthpeak Properties Inc 0.58%
- Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. 0.53%
- Essential Utilities Inc 0.52%
- HUDSON YARDS 2025-SPRL MORTGAGE TRUST 0.50%
- ABN AMRO BANK NV 0.50%
- SOFI CONSUMER LOAN PROGRAM 2026-C TRUST 0.49%
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- BINC vs GVI · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 0.1%
- BINC vs MINT · PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 0.1%
- BINC vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.1%
More comparisons with PULS
- PULS vs JAAA · Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF 0.3%
- PULS vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 0.3%
- PULS vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.3%
- PULS vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.2%
- PULS vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.2%
- PULS vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.2%
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/.
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