ETF comparison
BSV vs PULS
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
84 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BSV and PULS would leave roughly 0.8% 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
BSV 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 BSV vs PULS.
Top shared holdings
84 shared in total| # | Holding | In BSV | In PULS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.53% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 2 | Salesforce Inc | 0.03% | 0.28% | 0.03% |
| 3 | ONEOK Inc | 0.03% | 0.28% | 0.03% |
| 4 | Amazon.com Inc | 0.02% | 0.16% | 0.02% |
| 5 | GlaxoSmithKline Capital Inc | 0.02% | 0.06% | 0.02% |
| 6 | AbbVie Inc | 0.02% | 0.26% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Broadcom Inc | 0.02% | 0.37% | 0.02% |
| 8 | Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd | 0.05% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Diageo Capital PLC | 0.02% | 0.08% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Amazon.com Inc | 0.02% | 0.21% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Eaton Corp | 0.02% | 0.11% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Lowe's Cos Inc | 0.01% | 0.20% | 0.01% |
Only in BSV
3,101 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.12%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.89%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.88%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.81%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.80%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.79%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.78%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.77%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.77%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%
Only in PULS
651 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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