ETF comparison
IUSB vs PULS
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
144 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IUSB and PULS would leave roughly 0.5% 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
IUSB is 9 bps cheaper than PULS. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/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 IUSB vs PULS.
Top shared holdings
144 shared in total| # | Holding | In IUSB | In PULS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.18% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 2 | Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte. Ltd. | 0.01% | 0.02% | 0.01% |
| 3 | BMARK | 0.01% | 0.14% | 0.01% |
| 4 | United States of America | 0.15% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 5 | Salesforce, Inc. | 0.01% | 0.28% | 0.01% |
| 6 | BBCMS Mortgage Trust | 0.01% | 0.29% | 0.01% |
| 7 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 0.01% | 0.21% | 0.01% |
| 8 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 0.01% | 0.16% | 0.01% |
| 9 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 0.01% | 0.11% | 0.01% |
| 10 | Salesforce, Inc. | 0.01% | 0.28% | 0.01% |
| 11 | Alphabet, Inc. | 0.01% | 0.16% | 0.01% |
| 12 | Nordea Bank Abp | 0.01% | 0.08% | 0.01% |
Only in IUSB
17,900 total- Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. 0.41%
- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.36%
- United States of America 0.35%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.33%
- United States of America 0.33%
Only in PULS
591 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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