ETF comparison
BOND vs PULS
Both US Aggregate Bond.
PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
19 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BOND and PULS would leave roughly 1.0% 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
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Cost difference
PULS is 36 bps cheaper than BOND. On a $100,000 position that's about $360/yr more in fees for BOND.
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 BOND vs PULS.
Top shared holdings
19 shared in total| # | Holding | In BOND | In PULS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OCTAGON INVESTMENT PARTNERS 41, LTD. | 0.18% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 2 | BMO Mortgage Trust | 0.16% | 0.17% | 0.16% |
| 3 | OneMain Financial Issuance Trust | 0.12% | 0.19% | 0.12% |
| 4 | BENCHMARK Mortgage Trust | 0.08% | 0.14% | 0.08% |
| 5 | SALESFORCE INC | 0.08% | 0.28% | 0.08% |
| 6 | Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP LLC | 0.06% | 0.11% | 0.06% |
| 7 | FIDELITY NATL INFO SERV | 0.06% | 0.13% | 0.06% |
| 8 | Woodward Capital Management | 0.05% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 9 | Silver Rock CLO Ltd | 0.04% | 0.22% | 0.04% |
| 10 | Woodward Capital Management | 0.04% | 0.05% | 0.04% |
| 11 | Trinitas CLO Ltd | 0.03% | 0.24% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Cross Mortgage Trust | 0.03% | 0.11% | 0.03% |
Only in BOND
1,500 total- UMBS, TBA 5.56%
- PIMCO Mortgage-Backed Securities Active Exchange-Traded Fund 4.07%
- UMBS, TBA 3.46%
- United States Treasury 3.39%
- UMBS, TBA 2.73%
- United States Treasury 2.57%
- UMBS, TBA 2.54%
- UMBS, TBA 2.27%
- United States Treasury 1.94%
- United States Treasury 1.93%
Only in PULS
716 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/.
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