ETF comparison
PYLD vs VMBS
Both US Aggregate Bond.
PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
9 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PYLD and VMBS would leave roughly 0.3% 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
VMBS is 53 bps cheaper than PYLD. On a $100,000 position that's about $530/yr more in fees for PYLD.
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 PYLD vs VMBS.
Top shared holdings
9 shared in total| # | Holding | In PYLD | In VMBS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fannie Mae | 0.12% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 2 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.09% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 3 | Fannie Mae | 0.27% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 4 | Freddie Mac | 0.03% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 5 | Freddie Mac | 0.35% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 6 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.01% | 0.11% | 0.01% |
| 7 | Freddie Mac | 1.06% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 8 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.01% | 0.10% | 0.01% |
| 9 | Fannie Mae | 0.00% | 0.09% | 0.00% |
Only in PYLD
1,748 total- UMBS, TBA 7.01%
- UMBS, TBA 6.55%
- UMBS, TBA 4.83%
- Fannie Mae 2.97%
- UMBS, TBA 1.78%
- UMBS, TBA 1.42%
- United States Treasury 1.20%
- REPUBLIC OF PERU 0.89%
- RD MICHIGAN PROP OWNER I 0.84%
- REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 0.79%
Only in VMBS
4,853 total- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.33%
- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.30%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.30%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.29%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.28%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.27%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.27%
- Fannie Mae Pool 0.27%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.26%
- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.26%
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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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