ETF comparison
NEAR vs PULS
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
29 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of NEAR and PULS would leave roughly 1.9% 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 10 bps cheaper than NEAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for NEAR.
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 NEAR vs PULS.
Top shared holdings
29 shared in total| # | Holding | In NEAR | In PULS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.29% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 2 | ALPHABET INC | 0.18% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 3 | Rockford Tower CLO Ltd | 0.16% | 0.32% | 0.16% |
| 4 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.15% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 5 | Barclays Commercial Mortgage Securities LLC | 0.13% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 6 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.38% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 7 | NEXTERA ENERGY CAPITAL | 0.10% | 0.11% | 0.10% |
| 8 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | 0.09% | 0.27% | 0.09% |
| 9 | MORGAN STANLEY BANK NA | 0.08% | 0.27% | 0.08% |
| 10 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.08% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 11 | GLENCORE FUNDING LLC | 0.08% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.06% | 0.27% | 0.06% |
Only in NEAR
1,795 total- United States Treasury 12.04%
- United States Treasury 3.76%
- United States Treasury 3.32%
- United States Treasury 2.83%
- United States Treasury 1.83%
- United States Treasury 1.42%
- United States Treasury 1.30%
- United States Treasury 1.08%
- United States Treasury 0.70%
- United States Treasury 0.47%
Only in PULS
706 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%
- ABN AMRO BANK NV 0.50%
- SOFI CONSUMER LOAN PROGRAM 2026-C TRUST 0.49%
- FEDERATION DES CAISSES DESJARDINS DU QUEBEC 0.44%
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- PULS vs GVI · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 0.7%
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- PULS vs IUSB · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 0.5%
- PULS vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.5%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open NEAR 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/.
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