ETF comparison
PULS vs VUSB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Holdings overlap
59 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PULS and VUSB would leave roughly 3.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
VUSB is 5 bps cheaper than PULS. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/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 PULS vs VUSB.
Top shared holdings
59 shared in total| # | Holding | In PULS | In VUSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NTT Finance Corp | 0.25% | 0.38% | 0.25% |
| 2 | American Honda Finance Corporation | 0.25% | 0.37% | 0.25% |
| 3 | Jefferies Financial Group Inc | 0.21% | 0.30% | 0.21% |
| 4 | Mars Inc. | 0.29% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 5 | Oneok Inc. | 0.37% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 6 | Gmf Floorplan Owner Revolving Trust | 0.18% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 7 | Glencore Funding LLC | 0.14% | 0.29% | 0.14% |
| 8 | The Toronto-Dominion Bank | 0.12% | 0.17% | 0.12% |
| 9 | Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust A | 0.12% | 0.29% | 0.12% |
| 10 | AbbVie Inc. | 0.12% | 0.16% | 0.12% |
| 11 | NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc | 0.14% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 12 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 0.15% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
Only in PULS
540 total- PGIM ETF Trust 1.63%
- SUNCOR ENERGY INC 0.75%
- Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. 0.72%
- INTESA SANPAOLO SPA NEW YORK BRANCH 0.72%
- Essential Utilities Inc 0.71%
- ABN AMRO Bank N.V. 0.66%
- BX TRUST 2022-LBA6 0.59%
- Federation des Caisses Desjardins du Quebec 0.59%
- CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NEW YORK INC 0.56%
- Intuit Inc 0.53%
Only in VUSB
1,223 total- United States Treasury Bill 3.18%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.82%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.57%
- US Bancorp 0.55%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.49%
- Truist Bank 0.48%
- Tyson Foods Inc 0.46%
- UBS Group AG 0.45%
- Bank of Montreal 0.44%
- National Bank of Canada 0.41%
Open PULS or VUSB 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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