ETF comparison
BIV vs PYLD
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund
Holdings overlap
107 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BIV and PYLD would leave roughly 1.7% 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
BIV is 61 bps cheaper than PYLD. On a $100,000 position that's about $610/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 BIV vs PYLD.
Top shared holdings
107 shared in total| # | Holding | In BIV | In PYLD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boeing Co/The | 0.08% | 0.09% | 0.08% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.07% | 0.18% | 0.07% |
| 3 | Bank of America Corp | 0.09% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 4 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.07% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 5 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.05% | 0.06% | 0.05% |
| 6 | Enbridge Inc | 0.05% | 0.29% | 0.05% |
| 7 | HCA Inc | 0.04% | 0.23% | 0.04% |
| 8 | HCA Inc | 0.04% | 0.15% | 0.04% |
| 9 | CVS Health Corp | 0.04% | 0.05% | 0.04% |
| 10 | Banco Santander SA | 0.03% | 0.07% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.04% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Energy Transfer LP | 0.06% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Only in BIV
2,248 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.14%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.14%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.13%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.08%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.08%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.02%
Only in PYLD
1,650 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%
- Freddie Mac 1.06%
- REPUBLIC OF PERU 0.89%
- RD MICHIGAN PROP OWNER I 0.84%
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- PYLD vs BLV · Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 1.2%
- PYLD vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 1.1%
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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