ETF comparison
PFF vs PFFD
Both Preferred Securities.
iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF · Global X U.S. Preferred ETF
Holdings overlap
207 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PFF and PFFD would leave roughly 67.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
PFFD is 22 bps cheaper than PFF. On a $100,000 position that's about $220/yr more in fees for PFF.
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 PFF vs PFFD.
Top shared holdings
207 shared in total| # | Holding | In PFF | In PFFD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boeing Co. | 3.98% | 4.64% | 3.98% |
| 2 | Wells Fargo & Co. | 2.29% | 2.31% | 2.29% |
| 3 | Albemarle Corp | 1.76% | 3.00% | 1.76% |
| 4 | Citigroup Capital XIII | 1.41% | 2.27% | 1.41% |
| 5 | Bank of America Corp. | 1.35% | 1.32% | 1.32% |
| 6 | NextEra Energy Inc | 1.19% | 1.89% | 1.19% |
| 7 | KKR & Co Inc. | 1.11% | 1.76% | 1.11% |
| 8 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. | 1.03% | 1.53% | 1.03% |
| 9 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 0.98% | 1.00% | 0.98% |
| 10 | Microchip Technology Incorporated | 0.90% | 1.72% | 0.90% |
| 11 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 0.88% | 0.92% | 0.88% |
| 12 | NextEra Energy Inc | 0.84% | 1.32% | 0.84% |
Only in PFF
248 total- Oracle Corp. 2.40%
- Strategy Inc. 1.49%
- Southern Co. 1.10%
- Apollo Global Management Inc 0.90%
- Strategy Inc. 0.64%
- Strategy Inc. 0.51%
- Xcel Energy Inc 0.47%
- Citigroup Inc. 0.42%
- Annaly Capital Management, Inc. 0.39%
- Novanta Inc 0.36%
Only in PFFD
0 totalEvery PFFD position is also held by PFF.
Open PFF or PFFD at a brokerage
Both funds trade commission-free at major US brokerages.
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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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