ETF comparison
GOVT vs PULS
US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US Aggregate Bond.
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and PULS would leave roughly 0.2% 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
GOVT is 10 bps cheaper than PULS. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/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 GOVT vs PULS.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In GOVT | In PULS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.42% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
Only in GOVT
213 total- United States of America 5.28%
- United States of America 2.95%
- United States of America 2.63%
- United States of America 2.08%
- United States of America 1.62%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.38%
- United States of America 1.37%
Only in PULS
734 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 BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- PULS vs MBB · iShares MBS ETF 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open GOVT or PULS at a brokerage
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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.