ETF comparison
FLOT vs PULS
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Holdings overlap
62 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FLOT and PULS would leave roughly 6.2% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.15% vs 0.15%).
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 FLOT vs PULS.
Top shared holdings
62 shared in total| # | Holding | In FLOT | In PULS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NEW YORK LIFE GLOBAL FDG | 0.24% | 0.29% | 0.24% |
| 2 | CITIBANK NA | 0.23% | 0.27% | 0.23% |
| 3 | HYUNDAI CAPITAL AMERICA | 0.27% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 4 | AMERICAN HONDA FINANCE | 0.27% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 5 | AUST & NZ BANKING GROUP | 0.37% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 6 | PROTECTIVE LIFE GLOBAL | 0.17% | 0.27% | 0.17% |
| 7 | MORGAN STANLEY BANK NA | 0.22% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 8 | BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA | 0.21% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 9 | COREBRIDGE GLOB FUNDING | 0.22% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 10 | GENERAL MOTORS FINL CO | 0.16% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 11 | SEMPRA | 0.15% | 0.38% | 0.15% |
| 12 | KEURIG DR PEPPER INC | 0.16% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
Only in FLOT
483 total- EUROPEAN BK RECON & DEV 1.15%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 1.05%
- EUROPEAN BK RECON & DEV 0.95%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 0.89%
- EUROPEAN BK RECON & DEV 0.85%
- INTL FINANCE CORP 0.82%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 0.77%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 0.77%
- INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP 0.77%
- INTER-AMERICAN DEVEL BK 0.76%
Only in PULS
673 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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- PULS vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 2.1%
- PULS vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 1.9%
- PULS vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 1.0%
- PULS vs BSV · Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.8%
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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