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BND vs PULS

Both US Aggregate Bond.

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.5 %

104 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and PULS would leave roughly 0.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BND unmatched 98.6% Shared 0.5% PULS unmatched 98.7%

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.

In BND only
17,292 positions
Shared
104 positions
In PULS only
631 positions

Side by side

BND

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Aggregate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$400.61B
whole fund, 6 share classes
TTM yield
3.79%
Top-10 conc.
4.1%
PULS

PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF

PGIM · US Aggregate Bond

84 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$19.61B
TTM yield
4.35%
Top-10 conc.
7.2%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
85
53
Tax efficiency
52
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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BND sub-score PULS

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

BND is 12 bps cheaper than PULS. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for PULS.

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 BND vs PULS.

Top shared holdings

104 shared in total
# Holding In BND In PULS Overlap
1 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.21% 0.17% 0.17%
2 Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.02% 0.02% 0.02%
3 Amazon.com Inc 0.01% 0.16% 0.01%
4 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.18% 0.01% 0.01%
5 Netflix Inc 0.01% 0.27% 0.01%
6 GlaxoSmithKline Capital Inc 0.01% 0.06% 0.01%
7 BBCMS Mortgage Trust 2024-5C27 0.01% 0.15% 0.01%
8 Amazon.com Inc 0.01% 0.21% 0.01%
9 Amazon.com Inc 0.01% 0.21% 0.01%
10 Lowe's Cos Inc 0.01% 0.20% 0.01%
11 Airbnb Inc 0.01% 0.08% 0.01%
12 Lowe's Cos Inc 0.01% 0.13% 0.01%

Only in BND

17,292 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.47%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.40%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%

Only in PULS

631 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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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.